Researchers say they are one step closer to finding out if life ever existed on Mars. An international team has found “compelling evidence” of multiple mineral-forming events just below the planet’s ...

For years, scientists staring at Mars through the eyes of orbiting spacecraft noticed something strange: a mysterious signal in the light spectrum that didn’t match any known mineral. That puzzling ...

NASA and its experts were busy documenting the Martian surface as preparations for human flight were underway. While recording the spectral lines, they discovered that, though sulfur was common on ...

August 5, 2025, Mountain View, CA – New research published in Nature Communications identifies an iron sulfate on Mars that may represent a brand-new mineral. Sulfur is common on Mars and combines ...

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