Mars' core formed within just a few million years, ... Heavier elements, particularly iron and nickel, typically sink to the hearts of planets, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has cracked open a Mars rock that contained several elements necessary to life as we know it. The presence of the elements, including hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, suggest ...

The planet Mars is home to thick layers of clay that can span hundreds of feet. Since they need water to form, these outcrops have long been of interest to scientists looking for signs of past life on ...

NASA scientists hosted a live discussion Thursday, announcing new discoveries from its car-sized Mars Curiosity rover. The agency revealed that scientists found organic matter preserved on Mars ...

One idea, the Mars Ocean Hypothesis, suggests that Mars not only had some liquid water, but a lot of it.But the new study's co-author Kun Wang says his team's finding, which was published this ...

A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

Astronomer-At-Large Fred Watson says scientists studying the interior of Mars' core shows different elements than Earth’s core which suggests it had a “very different story” to tell from its ...

The results were even somewhat better for the lower Mars gravity. Payam Rasoulnia, a doctoral student at Tampere University in Finland who has studied biomining of rare earth elements, called the ...

The full list of relevant elements were sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and carbon. Scientists noted that a mixture of oxidized, less-oxidized, and non-oxidized chemicals were ...