Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence suggesting Mars once hosted an ancient ocean. Data from China’s Zhurong rover, ...
Johnson reports the crater can be seen today only in a 35-mile wide dome that marks exactly where the asteroid impacted.
The thickness of the sediment layers indicates that this ocean existed for millions of years, allowing rivers to deposit material along the shore. This reinforces theories that Mars had a stable, ...
More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...
According to researchers led by Ernest Chi Fru from Cardiff University, the first complex life forms may have emerged 2.1 billion years ago, which is 1.5 billion years earlier than previously believed ...
The 3.5 billion-year-old crater discovered in Australia may be the cradle of life. Earth's oldest-known crater discovered is ...
A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...
A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once ...
The ocean - known as Deuteronilus - would have existed roughly 3.5 to four billion years ago, a time when Mars had a thicker atmosphere and warmer climate, according to scientists. Go back a mere four ...