In November 2011, NASA launched a space mission to explore the planet Mars through a vehicle known as Curiosity. After a long ...

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On Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected chemical signatures in rocks similar to those created by microbial life on Earth. The minerals found,vivianite and greigite, appear in a structured ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover did not set out to make headlines with a “eureka” moment. It simply rolled over a rock on May 30, 2024, cracked it open, and exposed something scientists had never confirmed on ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover stumbled onto a Martian mystery after crushing a rock that revealed something scientists never expected to find on the Red Planet. Sulfur plays a vital role in sustaining life ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The discovery of life on Mars is a tad closer than ever before. This month, NASA announced the discovery of signs of life on the red planet in deposits of clay and silt in a canyon.

What can volcanic sulfur on ancient Mars teach scientists about whether microbial life might have existed? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of ...

In July 2024, Perseverance cored Sapphire Canyon mudstone, detecting vivianite, greigite and sulfur - signals consistent with ...

Sulfur crystals found inside a rock after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024. This discovery supports new research led by scientists at The University ...

Mars is the only planet populated exclusively by robots. That fact is the rather mind-boggling result of what easily ...

A German startup believes it has the recipe for electric vehicle battery cells that are cheaper, more energy dense, and less problematic for the environment than current lithium-ion cells. But ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Wright, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) If you look at a map of ...