Researchers studied fossils of two juvenile Pterodactylus antiquus from Germany’s Solnhofen limestone. The delicate skeletons ...

Mars’ Jezero Crater holds signs of ancient water and strange mineral reactions, some linked with organic compounds. With ...

This week, NASA said scientists took the biggest step yet toward discovering whether there was ever life on Mars when a rock sample collected by the Mars rover Perseverance contained potential ...

A clutch of dinosaur eggs found in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an “atomic clock” method to date the sample.

Minerals in the rock might have been produced by microbes in chemical reactions, but researchers say they’ll need to examine the sample more closely to know for sure ...

NASA is increasingly sure its Mars rover Perseverance found a rock with biosignatures of ancient microbial life. However, the sample would need to be tested in labs on Earth to confirm the findings ...

Was there ever life on Mars? Planetary scientists think there could have been but there hasn’t been any direct evidence.

Scientists stressed that in-depth analysis is needed of the sample gathered by the Perseverance rover before reaching any ...

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars last year may have ...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover collected a rock sample that NASA leaders say offers the best signs yet that ancient Mars ...

An ancient DNA analysis of the remains of several mastodons, including those which roamed along the Pacific and Atlantic ...

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