Researchers at the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have observed the formation of nanocavities in montmorillonite clay ...

Thick clay deposits on Mars hint at long-lived lakes that may have sheltered early life - and preserved clues beneath layers ...

Clay-Encrusted Microbes Provide Clues to How Early Life Developed on Earth and Potentially Mars. Smithsonian scientists study saline lakes in the Chilean desert to travel back in time to ancient ...

Related: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is enroute to conduct 1st crater rim study at 'Dox Castle' How Earth pointed the way in Mars atmosphere mystery. Working within his group at MIT, Jagoutz ...

These are but a few of the arguments in Hansma’s hypothesis that lend themselves to life having started in micaceous clay; other support can be found in mica’s old age, and in the mineral’s affinity ...

Tohoku University. (2024, October 31). How life began on earth: modeling Earth's ancient atmosphere. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 10 ...