MARS

NASA scientists have discovered new evidence that briny water flows on Mars during its warmest months, raising chances that life could exist on the Red Planet, the space agency said on Thursday.

Scientists announced on Thursday that they saw dark, finger-like features appearing and extending down some Martian slopes during late spring through summer, which fade in the winter and return during next spring.

Scientists have discovered a new phenomenon on the surface of Mars which can potentially prove that seasonal water, and therefore life, could exist in the Red Planet. This new finding can help scientists big time in their search for life on Mars.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have taken high-resolution photographs of possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars, when dark, finger-like lines are seen on some Martian slopes. In the middle latitudes of the Planet's southern hemisphere.

The recent discovery of possible salt water on mars could lead to extraterrestrial life on Mars. NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter release photos of possible flowing water extending onto a rocky slope. The images show dark colored slim streaks flowing down from slopes and crevices. Brown streaks appear and disappear throughout Mars' winter spring and summer seasons. Briny water has been speculated to be flowing during those seasons.

NASA announced Thursday that they've potentially discovered liquid water on the surface of Mars. Researchers are studying satellite images that appear to have the consistency of salty brine water.

NASA scientists have discovered fresh evidence that water is flowing on Mars during its warmest months, raising the likelihood that life could exist on the red planet, the agency said on Thursday.

NASA's possible water discovery could mean there is life on the red planet. However, one prominent scientist disputes that notion.

Mysterious dark lines discovered on Mars by a search algorithm shows indications of flowing water on the surface today. NASA officials also raised the possibility of how life such as micro-organisms could possibly survive in such an environment.

The images of the findings show flows lengthen and darken on rocky equator-facing slopes from late spring to early fall, and the seasonality, latitude distribution and brightness changes suggest a volatile material is involved, but there is no direct detection of one, NASA said.

The latest findings suggest signs of water in lower latitudes of Mars. Previously, it was known that water (in the form of ice) existed at the poles of the planet.

At one Martian crater, McEwen said, about a thousand ?water flows? were identified.

NASA said it will host a news briefing on Thursday about a significant new Mars science finding. The space agency did not give too many details in the release but said the new finding is based on observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2006.

The founder of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) would like to see humans set up a colony on Mars in the next few decades.

Given that visitations of asteroids are always viewed with an element of fear and anxiety down here, how unsettling is the revelation that multiple asteroids of various sizes could be sharing our planet's orbital path?

Scientists have discovered first Trojan asteroid companion to Earth that orbits around the sun along with Earth for thousands of years.

Nicknamed 'Curiosity,' NASA's new Mars rover is being prepared to explore Gale Crater on Mars, with a mission to find answers to whether the environment could support and preserve life on Mars.

NASA has embraced a presidential directive to plant astronauts on an asteroid, a mission that officials say represents the most ambitious yet for the space agency.

NASA has chosen a landing site for its next Mars rover with the goal of seeking more signs of life and historical water on the planet. Scientists have long known that Mars is home to a few patches of carbonates -- minerals that form readily in large bodies of water -- but they suspect that many more carbonates may be hidden beneath layers of the Red planet.

Curiosity is planned to launch later this year and land in August 2012.

Mars Rover Curiosity will launch from earth in late 2011. By August 2012, it’s expected to land on Mars. Then, it’s expected to conduct a 2-year study of the red planet.