If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

An arrowhead-shaped rock on Mars sporting features that may hint at ancient microbial activity on the Red Planet has left ...

Researchers have identified traces of fossilized life in terrestrial gypsum deposits, opening a new avenue for the search for biosignatures on Mars. This discovery, made using a ...

Researchers have developed a promising technique to identify potential microbial fossils on Mars. Sulfate minerals like gypsum, abundant on the Martian surface, may hold clues to ancient life.

Planetary scientists in Algeria and Switzerland have developed a scientific instrument that could help hunt for signs of life ...

Scientist is proud to have led "the first astrobiology study to involve Algeria," and believes that his findings are a major step towards finding evidence of life on Mars. Scientists searching for ...

Scientists found fossil-like traces in gypsum, suggesting ancient microbial life may have existed on Mars billions of years ...

"He was like, 'OK, now we are talking,'" recalls Sellam. In graduate school, he worked on an idea to help fill in the fossil ...

what if the same thing happened on Mars? If it did, how would we prove it? Scientists hoping to identify fossil evidence of ancient Martian microbial life have now found a way to test their ...

The hope is that by installing a LIMS on a rover, it will be possible for a future Mars mission to seek out possible Martian fossils within Martian gypsum. "Our study shows that gypsum can ...

"We proved that our instrument is capable of detecting signatures of life in gypsum," he added, suggesting it might help do ...

Life on Mars? The scientists identified long, twisting fossil filaments within the Algerian gypsum, which have previously been interpreted as benthic algae or cyanobacteria, and are now thought to ...