PIXL: A New NASA Instrument For Ferreting Out Clues of Ancient Life on Mars

  The search for life, or signs of past life beyond Earth is now a central issue in space science, is central to the mission of NASA, and is actually a potentially breakthrough discovery in the making  for humanity.    The scientific stakes could hardly be higher. But identifying evidence of ancient microbial life – and …

On The Frontier Of The Hunt For Signs Of Life On Early Earth And Ancient Mars

Seldom does one rock outcrop get so many visitors in a day, especially when that outcrop is located in rugged, frigid terrain abutting the Greenland Ice Sheet and can be reached only by helicopter. But this has been a specimen of great importance and notoriety since it appeared from beneath the snow pack some eight …