Officials with Save Red Rock, the advocacy group working to protect the safety and sustainability of Red Rock Canyon National ...

A disciplinary hearing that could strip away Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones’ law license wrapped up Wednesday without a resolution after three days of testimony. Following eight hours of ...

The attorney for Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones said Monday that Jones deleted text messages sought in a development lawsuit as a "political cleansing" to put a long controversy behind him.

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

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

Scientists may have uncovered a promising new method to detect ancient life on Mars. A recent study suggests that microbial ...

Looking at those spectra can determine whether there's fossilized life in the rock. But before that laser could be sent to ...

Gypsum is a hydrated calcium sulfate (CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O) formed from calcium (Ca) and sulfur (S) that originate from the erosion of rocks. These elements are transported by water, which promotes the ...

It would allow for on-site analysis of the chemical composition of rocks, searching for traces of fossilized life. Its miniaturization and precision make it an essential tool for future exploration ...

Scientists hoping to identify fossil evidence of ancient Martian microbial life have now found a way to test their hypothesis, proving they can detect the fossils of microbes in gypsum samples that ...

proving they can detect the fossils of microbes in gypsum samples that are a close analogy to sulfate rocks on Mars. "Our findings provide a methodological framework for detecting biosignatures in ...