Editorial

15:10 JST, September 24, 2025

Are living creatures on Earth solitary beings in the vast universe? Or, is life abundant throughout the universe? It can be said that a research result has taken us one step closer to answering these fundamental questions.

On Sept 10, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that it may have found traces of life in Martian rocks. NASA discovered minerals such as iron phosphate and iron sulfide in a sample collected by its Perseverance rover on Mars.

These minerals are said to be normally produced in association with microbial metabolism. This is a significant discovery possibly indicating that life once existed on........

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