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NASA announces life on Mars? Did the new rover discover signs of water or oxygen?Did NASA announce life on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance rover drilled a mudstone core showing minerals and textures, vivianite and greigite, th...
New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient lifeNASA's Perseverance rover has discovered intriguing rocks in a Martian river channel, potentially hinting at ancient microbial life. The ro...
Mars secret revealed: The Red Planet's cracked skin may be hiding an ancient truthNASA’s Curiosity rover has captured the first-ever close-up images of spiderweb-like “boxwork” formations on Mars, revealing new clues abou...
Did NASA’s experiment accidentally kill life on Mars?Life on Mars: An astrobiologist suggests that NASA's Viking missions in the 1970s may have inadvertently eliminated potential Martian life....
Scientists propose warming up Mars by using heat-trapping 'glitter'Researchers suggested a new method to warm Mars by injecting engineered nanoparticles into its atmosphere, potentially increasing temperatu...
Life on Mars? This may be the place to find themRocks collected by Perseverance are filled with organic molecules, and they formed in a lake that would have been habitable a few billion y...
NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian airThe instrument works through electrolysis, which uses extreme heat to separate oxygen atoms from molecules of carbon dioxide, which account...
Was there ever life on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover wants to find outNASA's Perseverance rover prepares for touchdown on the Red Planet Thursday to search for telltale signs of microbes that might have existe...
Desi scientist's work on ‘extreme’ life key to decoding existence on MarsOver the past two years, there has been a lot of debate over the presence of “liquid water” on Mars. On September 28, a study in ‘Nature’ c...
- NASA finds curious new clues to life on Mars
Washington, June 8 (IANS) NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered "tough" organic molecules in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks near ...
Mars may have harboured life in past: StudyThe researchers from Imperial College London in the UK concluded that there could be nearly 12,000 Olympic sized pools of organic matter on...
Ancient lake on Mars harboured diverse microbial life: Study"These were very different, co-existing environments in the same lake," said Joel Hurowitz of Stony Brook University in the US.
- Ancient Mars lake had microbe-friendly conditions: Study
New York, June 2 (IANS) An ancient Martian lake had conditions suitable for different types of microbes to survive, according to a new rese...
- First boron detection on Mars may provide clues on habitability
New York, Dec 14 (IANS) NASA's Curiosity rover has detected boron for the first time on the surface of Mars, indicating the potential for l...
- Curiosity rover uncovers layered rock formations on Mars
New York, Sep 13 (IANS) NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has sent back spectacular colour images of layered rock formations on the Red Planet.
Curiosity views spectacular rock formations on MarsThe new images represent Curiosity's last stop in the Murray Buttes, where the rover has been driving for just over one month.
Strong solar winds may have stripped life on Mars: NASAMAVEN is the first mission devoted to understanding how the sun might have influenced atmospheric changes on the Red Planet.
The key to colonizing Mars could be tiny green microbesIn science fiction, we find humans harvesting fields of wheat under terraformed Martian skies and growing rows of potatoes inside climate-c...
Methane in Mars meteorites hints at life on red planetIn a clue to possibility of life below the surface of Mars, a team of researchers has discovered traces of methane in Martian meteorites.
Mars rover Curiosity finds first mineral matchMuch of Curiosity's first year on Mars was spent investigating outcrops in a low area of Gale Crater called "Yellowknife Bay".