Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's ...

Adding to the findings of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission, experts found what initiated a liquid past and how it evolved.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Mars, a planet once capable of sustaining liquid water and harboring flowing rivers, today stands as a frozen desert. For ...

What can the climate history of Mars teach scientists about whether the Red Planet once had the ingredients for life as we ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks – essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The ...

Nearly every state has limestone, gypsum and other soft rocks that are susceptible to a collapse. "In 99% of all cases, sinkholes pop up in carbonate rocks (like limestone or dolomite) ...

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Underneath the rocks laid down during the unimaginable cold of the Sturtian glaciation are 70 meters [229 feet] of older carbonate rocks formed in tropical waters,” study co-author and UCL PhD ...