Des Moines shoegaze outfit Holding Hour played their debut album release show Saturday, Feb. 22 at xBk Live. IPR’s Cece ...

The View from Mars uses a solo male dancer and a solo cellist, featuring the live music of celloist David McCann to explore themes of mental health, masculinity and memory. “The cello is such a ...

A new method to detect life in ancient rocks could help analyze Mars samples and determine if life once existed on the red ...

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

Within the next decade, space agencies plan to bring samples of rock from Mars to Earth for study. Of concern is the ...

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

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

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

The new explanation for the reddish color – the rusty-colored dust known as ferrihydrite – also will help our understanding of the history of water and the possibility of life on Mars.