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Life on Mars could survive — so long as you're one of these strange, hybrid lifeforms
Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the extremophiles could potentially live on the Red Planet.
Curiosity rover finds largest carbon chains on Mars from 3.7 billion-year-old rock
NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced by biological processes.
NASA rover reveals signs of crucial life-sustaining process on Mars
Samples drilled by the Curiosity rover on Mars have revealed abundant signs of a carbon cycle that remained hidden from orbital scans, alongside clues of how life may have been wiped out on the planet.
Mars rises over the moon's horizon at the best possible time
A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.
NASA rover watches 'fiendish' Martian 'dust devils' collide in rare case of extraterrestrial cannibalism
Video footage captured by NASA's Perseverance rover shows a small "dust devil" merging with a much larger twister on the surface of Mars.
Mars: Facts about the Red Planet, its moons, and possibilities for life
Discover interesting facts about Mars, its moons, its atmosphere, and the possibilities of life.
Perseverance rover spots peculiar 'spider egg' rock on Mars — and scientists have no idea how it got there
On March 11, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying its formation could help us look for fossilized remains of microbial life on Mars.
Mars was once a 'vacation-style' beach planet, Chinese rover scans reveal
China's Zhurong rover has found evidence of an ancient shoreline buried deep beneath the planet. That could point to an ocean, a beach, and to life.
Mars' red color explained by surprising new research
New research has revealed that Martian dust's red hue comes from reactions that occurred in wet — not dry — conditions, and it could have implications for the possibility of life on the planet.
NASA rover discovers liquid water 'ripples' carved into Mars rock — and it could rewrite the Red Planet's history
NASA's Curiosity rover photographed remnants of rippling waves in an ancient Martian lakebed, proving that the Red Planet had open water for longer in its history than previously thought.
