From orbit high above Mars, a familiar shape has appeared in an utterly alien landscape: a vast feature that looks uncannily like a butterfly pressed into the planet’s dusty crust. Captured by NASA’s ...

For decades, scientists have imagined Martian life as something that might look faintly familiar, perhaps microbes not so ...

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