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Microorganisms first appeared on Earth in ancient bodies of water around 3.7 billion years ago. But while Mars might have ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found Earth's oldest fossils in Australia and say their microscopic discovery is convincing evidence that cells and bacteria were able to thrive in an oxygen-free ...

Image: The fossilized remains of Calothrix, a common bacterium in Yellowstone National Park hot springs, show like branches of a shrub in this microscopic image. The “branches” are the bacteria’s ...

The first life on Earth formed four billion years ago, as microbes living in pools and seas: what if the same thing happened on Mars? If it did, how would we prove it? Scientists hoping to identify ...

Fossilized remains are a curious piece to the puzzle that fortifies the natural history of our world. These relics provide a glance to the distant past and allow archeologists to continue to speculate ...

OSLO (Reuters) - The earliest fossil evidence of life on Earth has been found in rocks 3.7 billion years old in Greenland, raising chances of life on Mars aeons ago when both planets were similarly ...

NASA has unveiled the science goals for Curiosity's successor, the 2020 Mars rover, which is scheduled for launch in -- you guessed it -- 2020. Whereas Curiosity is capable of analyzing Mars' past ...

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Scientists searching for the fossilized remains of ancient microbes on Mars now have a better idea of what signs they should ...

Researchers used a miniaturized laser mass spectrometer to identify signs of fossils in a gypsum quarry in Algeria. They suggest the same tool could find early ...