This means that if life once existed on the Red Planet, we may now have the tool to identify its remains. The center stage of this discovery is a laser-powered mass spectrometer, a spaceflight-ready ...

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

A project at China's Zhejiang Normal University (ZJNU) has applied laser spectroscopy to bomb-peak dating, potentially assisting a number of carbon-dating and forensic applications. Bomb-peak dating ...

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

Scientists may finally have a way to detect ancient life on Mars by studying microbial fossils preserved in sulfate minerals.

A recent study published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences reports that scientists have successfully tested a compact, laser-powered mass spectrometer designed to detect microbial ...

Scientists found fossil-like traces in gypsum, suggesting ancient microbial life may have existed on Mars billions of years ...