October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... points to a surprising conclusion: that liquid briny flows capable of supporting microbial life could cover extensive regions of subsurface Mars. The question of ‘is there life on Mars’ is as old as the discovery of the Red Planet itself and to this...
03 April 2020
Newly discovered organisms in ancient solid rock inspire new search for life
... more than 100 metres below the sea floor, a finding that has implications for the possibility of life on Mars and other planetary bodies, where rocks of this type make up a large proportion of the crust. The upper...
01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
...and explore martian sites such as these as it hunts for signs of life on Mars. “It is especially exciting that a mission that has been so fruitful at the Red Planet, Mars Express, is now instrumental in helping future missions such as ExoMars explore...
11 May 2020
Martian brines likely to be present, just not habitable says new study
... also suggests that the properties and temperatures of the brines means they cannot sustain terrestrial life. The question of life on Mars and whether it has ever existed either long in its past or is possibly active today is as old as our...
18 February 2021
Success for NASA as Perseverance lands on Mars
... Laboratory, “If we see a hedgehog staring in the camera, we would know there’s current and certainly ancient life on Mars, but based on our past experiences, such an event is extremely unlikely. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence...
09 March 2020
Organic molecules found on Mars could be consistent with early life, says study
..., could be consistent with the presence of early life on Mars, says astrobiologist Dirk Schulze‑Makuch at Washington State ... conceivable pathways that allowed the thiophenes to form on Mars. Thiophenes consist of four carbon atoms, four hydrogen atoms...
