WASHINGTON — A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it ...

Such discoveries suggest water once flowed beneath Mars' surface. On Earth, sulfate minerals can preserve microscopic fossils of microbes. Finding similar structures on Mars could indicate past life.

But researchers writing in the journal IMA Fungus say they reckon lichens could survive on Mars today, despite the planet's barren surface. Lichens are a strange "symbiotic" relationship between ...

Theories on its origin include it smashing into the Red Planet as a meteorite or being carried from elsewhere on the Mars surface. The Red Planet. (ESA/MPS et al. via SWNS) The space agency said ...

NASA have made a mind-boggling discovery on Mars - which may have come from an alien world. The peculiar "Skull Hill" rock has left scientists scratching their heads with its bizarre features and ...

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Theories on its origin include it smashing into the Red Planet as a meteorite or being carried from elsewhere on the Mars surface. The Red Planet. (ESA/MPS et al. via SWNS) The space agency said: "The ...

This image shows features known as ‘spiders’ near Mars’s south pole, as seen by the CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System) instrument aboard ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. The ‘spiders’ ...