An arrowhead-shaped rock on Mars sporting features that may hint at ancient microbial activity on the Red Planet has left ...

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have a new potential way to find them Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent ...

Scientist is proud to have led "the first astrobiology study to involve Algeria," and believes that his findings are a major step towards finding evidence of life on Mars. Scientists searching for ...

The hope is that by installing a LIMS on a rover, it will be possible for a future Mars mission to seek out possible Martian fossils within Martian gypsum. "Our study shows that gypsum can ...

The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected. These long carbon chains, containing up to 12 consecutive carbon atoms, could exhibit features similar to the ...

"He was like, 'OK, now we are talking,'" recalls Sellam. In graduate school, he worked on an idea to help fill in the fossil record of life on Earth by looking at Mars. That's because it's only ...

Life on Mars? The scientists identified long, twisting fossil filaments within the Algerian gypsum, which have previously been interpreted as benthic algae or cyanobacteria, and are now thought to ...

and microscopic fossil structures. Before sending this technology to Mars, scientists needed to prove that it could detect ancient life here on Earth. They chose gypsum samples from the Sidi ...

Scientists have recently made a groundbreaking discovery in the search for life on Mars, identifying microbial fossils in Earth rocks that closely resemble structures found on the Red Planet.

Scientists searching for the fossilized remains of ancient microbes on Mars now have a better idea of what signs they should ...

what if the same thing happened on Mars? If it did, how would we prove it? Scientists hoping to identify fossil evidence of ancient Martian microbial life have now found a way to test their ...