If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

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

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

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 — ...

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

One of these minerals is gypsum, which "has been widely detected ... identifying the molecules within. Sellam found long, twisting, microscopic filaments of a type previously identified as being ...