NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a bizarre, coral-shaped rock on Mars, believed to have formed billions of years ago.

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly in pure water ice than they do in mixed soil samples. Ancient microbes, or ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. Found inside a ...

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NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

Mars-like shock and chemical stress reveal ribonucleoprotein condensates as a key survival mechanism in yeast. Life on Mars, ...

Skylights, openings in the surface of Mars that descend down into caves, have been found on Mars, along with signatures for the presence of water ice. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA / Futurism Scientists have long been interested in the caves of Mars — not just because they could provide a home for future ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American We humans can now peer back into the virtual ...