Latest about Life on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover may already have found signs of life on Mars, discovery of ancient lake sediments reveals
The discovery of an ancient lake bed beneath the Perseverance rover's location on Mars could mean the robotic scout has already scraped up microbial fossils. But we won't know for sure until we fetch the sample.
Lost world of lagoons filled with mounds of microbes discovered in Atacama desert
Researchers have discovered a jaw-dropping ecosystem of crystal-clear lagoons and salt plains in Argentina's Puna de Atacama desert that could offer a window onto early life on Earth and Mars.
Scientists created AI that could detect alien life — and they're not entirely sure how it works
The new machine-learning algorithm can distinguish between biological and nonbiological samples with 90% accuracy. Exactly how is a mystery.
'Building blocks of life' discovered on Mars in 10 different rock samples
NASA's Perseverance rover has found an intriguing menagerie of organic molecules in a Martian crater, but their source remains unclear.
Mars meteorite that crashed to Earth contains 'huge diversity' of organic compounds
A new study into the Tissint meteorite, which crash-landed in Morocco in 2011, revealed a wide array of organic compounds hidden in the rare space rock.
Bacteria could survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years, new study finds
New research suggests that signs of ancient Martian life could be out there – or rather, hidden just beneath the Martian surface, safe from harmful radiation.
First Martian life likely broke the planet with climate change, made themselves extinct
The finding comes from a modeling study that assumes ancient Martian life was similar to that on Earth during the same time period.
Mars was doomed to desiccation
Mars was doomed to desiccation by its small size, a new study suggests.
