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Scientists just found strongest signs of life on Mars yet: Study
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
A new study suggests a habitable past and signs of ancient microbial processes on Mars -- and Imperial scientists provided crucial context.
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New information on possibility of early steps of biological evolution on M
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The scientific community has definitely proven that Mars had habitable surface environments early in its existence. Water, energy sources, elements such as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur, as well as crucial catalytic transition metals linked to life as we know it
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Terminator zones on distant planets could harbour life: Research
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
In a recent study, astronomers from the University of California, Irvine explain how the possibility of extraterrestrial life exists on far-off exoplanets within a special region known as the "terminator zone," which is a ring on planets that have one side that is always facing its star and
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Study suggests better tools required to determine ancient life on Mars
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to a research team co-led by a Cornell University astronomer, current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of life might not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments.
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Research suggests Mars was once covered by 300 meter deep oceans
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Mars is called the red planet. But once, it was actually blue and covered in water, bringing us closer to finding out if Mars had ever harboured life.
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Research explores possibility of life beyond Earth
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
For millennia, caves have served as shelters for prehistoric humans. Caves have also intrigued scholars from early Chinese naturalists to Charles Darwin. A cave ecologist has been in and out of these subterranean ecosystems, examining the unique life forms -- and unique living conditions --
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Earth's oldest stromatolites and the search for life on Mars
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to advanced alteration and metamorphism. Stromatolites, layered organo-sedimen
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Mars meteorite impacts reveal fresh information about planet's crust
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Data from two meteorite impacts on Mars recorded by NASA's InSight spacecraft provide new insights into the structure of the Martian crust.
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Researchers discover largest known fresh meteorite strike on Mars
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers have helped discover the largest fresh meteorite impact craters on Mars since NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began scouring the planet for them 16 years ago, one of which contained ice at the lowest altitude ever observed.
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Life on other planets or space creatures narrowed down
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
California [US], October 21 (ANI): The most prevalent type of star in the universe, the M dwarf, has an Earth-like planet orbiting it that appears to have no atmosphere at all. This discovery could cause a major shift in the search for life on other planets.
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NASA's perseverance rover investigates geologically rich Mars terrain
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): NASA's Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, collecting rock-core samples from features within an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect for finding signs of ancient microbial life on Mars.
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Extremely harsh volcanic lake, projects how life might have existed on Ma
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Boulder (Colorado) [US], January 30 (ANI): Life on Mars has always been a subject of countless speculations, both amongst scientists as well as the general public. A recent study sheds some light on whether life may have existed on Mars.
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