When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Part of Gediz Vallis on Mars, imaged here by NASA's Curiosity rover, was carved by an ancient ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In a way, it all started with a road trip about a decade ago. "My father, he had the car so I had to borrow the car from him," says Youcef Sellam, who was interning at the University of Modena e ...

Researchers have found magnetic material in a 4.5-billion-year-old Martian meteorite that could only have been produced by bacteria. This new data strongly supports the primitive life on Mars ...

And you thought that slime in the bottom of your fridge was ancient. Scientists have found the oldest known remnant of life, a fossil dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years. If confirmed, the date ...

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 ...

When the Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet in February 2021, it will touch down in Jezero Crater, the site of a lake that existed 3.5 billion years ago. Now, two research teams have identified ...

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 ...