Their discovery showed that even tucked away in our innards – in the walls of our stomachs, subjected to vinegar-like pH ...

It [was] obvious these people were dying for some reason, but they were humans. They were just twice our size.' ...

A strange rock on Mars is raising new questions about the possibility of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. According ...

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

New findings indicate that Mars' past conditions may have supported microbial life. Research draws parallels with extremophiles—microorganisms that thrive in extreme environments on Earth.

The space scientists in their paper explain that the perchlorate model and the resultant conclusion that Viking did not detect life in the surface soils of Mars will factor into any discussion of ...

Scientists may finally have a way to detect ancient life on Mars by studying microbial fossils preserved in sulfate minerals. Gypsum deposits on Mars may be hiding evidence of past microbial life — ...

Previous analyses of iron oxide on Mars, based only on observations by spacecraft, didn’t detect any evidence of water ... which is an essential prerequisite for life. Our study reveals that ...

At this point it’s clear that Mars was once a very, very wet world, but whether that liquid water supported any life on the planet’s surface is something we still don’t know. Future missions ...

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists ... Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape—attractive but dead, and certainly not home to any little green men.

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists ... Right now, Mars is a reddish desert landscape – attractive but dead, and certainly not home to any little green men.