Finding evidence for the first life ever to emerge on planet earth is a long, tough slog. But oddly enough, real answers may ultimately come from Mars.
Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...
The discovery was made during NASA’s Endurance mission, which launched in May 2022 from Svalbard, Norway. The mission was led by Glyn Collinson, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...