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A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

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One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But ...

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For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

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Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.