Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of ...
A new study reveals a possible habitable past and evidence of ancient microbial activity on Mars.The research, which was led ...
It's not the first time there have been claims of signs of life on Mars, so why are scientists particularly thrilled now?
Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...
Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...
Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals.
Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains ...
Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.
Learn more about amber from South America, which reveals a warm, wet forest filled with insects, springtails, and spiders.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered traces of organic molecules in a layered rock outcrop called Bright Angelon Mars. One ...
Their images revealed that Bright Angel is a mudstone, a type of sedimentary rock formed from fine sediments deposited in water. Subsurface radar: RIMFAX, the radar imager for Mars subsurface ...
This story is a part of Understanding Southern Colorado's Groundwater, an occasional series from KRCC about groundwater ...