The discovery could further indicate that the Red Planet, despite its arid and desolate appearance today, may have been capable of supporting life long ago. The evidence was delivered to Earth and ...

A Chinese Mars rover may have found evidence of an ancient ocean on the arid Red Planet. According to a new paper in the ...

Researchers have found evidence of living microbes thriving in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth - the Atacama Desert of Chile.

The Atacama Desert harbors unique desert life with diverse microbes.New techniques separate genetic material in low-biomass ...

Scientists aimed to learn more about why Mars, which likely had a thicker atmosphere and liquid water in the past, became the ...

Was alien life in "hot water" on Mars billions of years ago? New evidence from the Martian meteorite "Black Beauty" suggests ...

Arid land research focuses on areas with less than eight inches of annual precipitation. Such landscapes prove difficult to restore and nearly 40% of the planet consists of semi-arid or arid land ...

Though Mars has much more extreme temperature fluctuations than our planet, and is much more arid, scientists believe it had large lakes of liquid water on its surface billions of years ago.