The gypsum dunes of White Sands National Park in New Mexico are already famous for preserving some of the oldest human ...

Scientists may have uncovered a promising new method to detect ancient life on Mars. A recent study suggests that microbial ...

A £1m project is investigating a Roman burial ritual in Yorkshire which created casts of the dead. The University of York's ...

Scientists may finally have a way to detect ancient life on Mars by studying microbial fossils preserved in sulfate minerals. Gypsum deposits on Mars may be hiding evidence of past microbial life — ...

A Star Trek-style life signs detector has successfully detected ancient microbial life in gypsum rocks similar to rocks on ...

"Yeah, let's go together," his dad said. The father-son duo were headed north to a gypsum quarry near the Mediterranean coast ...

Scientists hoping to identify fossil evidence of ancient Martian microbial life have now found a way to test their hypothesis, proving they can detect the fossils of microbes in gypsum samples ...