If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

Scientist is proud to have led "the first astrobiology study to involve Algeria," and believes that his findings are a major step towards finding evidence of life on Mars.

Scientists have developed a new method to detect ancient microbial life in Martian gypsum, potentially guiding future Mars ...

Searching for small fossils in big rocks requires specialized tools --tools that scientists could also use to look for ...

Planetary scientists in Algeria and Switzerland have developed a scientific instrument that could help hunt for signs of life ...

Back in 1976, the dual NASA Viking landers came to full stop on the Red Planet. Their life detection experimental findings still reverberate within the scientific community – fueling the on ...

Gypsum from Algeria stood in for Martian sulfate deposits However, in the distant past Mars was a very different place with a thicker atmosphere and so much liquid water that much of the surface ...

Researchers tested this technology in gypsum deposits in Algeria, a geological site analogous to those on Mars. The results are encouraging: LIMS identified microbial filaments and minerals associated ...

File Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy In 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first ... In 2021, NASA's Mars rover Perseverance made a robotic landing ...

Before sending this technology to Mars, scientists needed to prove that it could detect ancient life here on Earth. They chose gypsum samples from the Sidi Boutbal quarry in Algeria, a region rich ...