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

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

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

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

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

In “The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire,” Gee examines the many reasons why the human race finds itself in multiple ...

Planetary scientists in Algeria and Switzerland have developed a scientific instrument that could help hunt for signs of life ...

Kaolinite is a soft, earthy, usually white, mineral produced by the chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like ...