Tag: life on mars

Our latest ally in the search for life in the solar system? Algorithms.

This is important both for our search for life, and for potential contamination of the Red Planet.

Human visitors to Mars could bring along numerous microscopic colonizers. That's both good and bad.

There's more to the Red Planet than you think.

The melting of ice beneath the surface of Mars could have made its deep regions the most habitable.

Bacteria in rock deep under sea inspire new search for life on Mars.

Very, very probably wrong.

The clock is ticking.

Life, as they say, finds a way.

We don't want to say there's life on Mars... but there could be life on Mars.

We don't know whether Mars held life... but there's certainly a lot of potential.

Researchers have long known that Mars has water in the form of ice, but now, after years and years of ...

Mars - our neighbor, the Red Planet... is not actually red. The first look at what’s under Mars’s dusty red ...

Curiosity is preparing for its second drill on Mars - its eyeing a rock which may have a salty story ...

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover has discovered a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical which may indicate that there actually was ...

Dating rocks is not really something new - it's been conducted on Earth for decades now; researchers have also determined ...

Researchers have reported dark streaks near the equator of Mars, hinting at surprisingly large quantities of flowing water. If true, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has come up with yet another remarkable discovery - evidence of an ancient, freshwater lake, with water ...

After finding no methane in the Martian atmosphere, Curiosity has shown that the soil and dust on the surface of ...

A lab exemplification of the measurement chamber inside the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, an instrument that is part of the Sample ...