Ever since the discovery of methane on Mars, scientists have wondered if the Red Planet might harbor life. Now, researchers ...

But we won't know for sure until we go digging for it. Hints of methane on Mars go back all the way to the Mariner missions of the 1970s. But in 2013, NASA's Curiosity rover saw methane levels ...

The mystery of methane on Mars just got a whole lot more complicated. The gas, which on Earth is produced in large part by living things, has previously been detected on the Red Planet by remote ...

Potential conditions analogous to Mars include microscopic fractures in deep bedrock, subglacial freshwater lakes, and highly saline deep-sea basins. Methanogens have been identified in such ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected methane on Mars, which is usually produced by living organisms on Earth. Produced by Emma Fierberg. Original reporting by ...

But while Earth’s rivers and lakes are of liquid water, on Titan—the largest moon of Saturn—it’s liquid methane that sculpts the surface. Add Mars to the mix—where there’s a lot of ...

We have spotted tantalising glimpses of methane on Mars a few times over the years, but it has been difficult to confirm the detections with other instruments. In 2019, Curiosity detected the ...

The teams, which are studying methane and ancient rocks on Mars, are releasing their findings in two separate papers today. The journal Science published the studies online Thursday afternoon.

Ever since the discovery of methane on Mars, scientists have wondered if the Red Planet might harbor life. Now, researchers know where to look: deep under the surface of a broad Martian plain. The ...

Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems Ever since the discovery of methane on Mars, scientists have wondered if the Red Planet might harbor life. Now, researchers know where to look ...

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