"ALIEN microbes living just below the Martian soil are responsible for a haze of methane around the Red Planet, NASA scientists believe.... NASA are expected to confirm [this] during a briefing at their Washington HQ [later today]..." - Anthony Citrano

interesting, but what is the point? confirm or not? can they put forth any credible theory or conjuncture of existence of more sophisticated forms of life on Mars based on their current finds? - Hayk

Bacteria on Mars would be pretty f-ing mind-blowing. - Victor Ganata

Exactly, Victor. The implications of this find, especially to the field of astrobiology, are hard to overstate. - Anthony Citrano

I'll "like" it when it's NASA announcing it, not the Sun :p - cjmart

Surely if this if for real someone other than the Sun is reporting it. I'm surprised they found space to talk about it when they could be writting more about big brother. - Mark Ritchie from twhirl

If it is true, it's going to be the news of the century. Amazing. - andrei_c

I find it so improbable that only Earth has life-forms, that I'm not really surprised. Of course, it's a big thing to have actual proof. :) - Jemm

Oh, yeah, it's The Sun. Aren't their more reliable sources for this story? - Paul Grav

@grav Here's the Telegraph version of the story, a little more discreet: http://tinyurl.com/9bokzm - andrei_c

@andrei. Thanks, that means I can avoid The Sun's website. - Paul Grav

Basically Mars has farting microbes. Glad that there is intelligent life somewhere in this solar system... - Paul Denlinger

Methane was detected around Mars back in 2003. There are non-biological ways it can be produced and maintained. See http://www.astrobio.net/news... - Joe Knapp

How do we know this life on Mars isn't trying to attack us? I mean these guys - heck they aren't even humans - are from Mars after all. I propose a preemptive strike! - Meryn Stol

On top of that, I think I've seen something vaguely resembling a nuclear weapons facility somewhere on the surface. I must admit they're very good at camouflage. And we know shit about what's going on underground! - Meryn Stol

And we all know that the bad guys live in the desert. - Meryn Stol

It would kinda seem to me that the Sun should be the ultimate authority on this subject. [crowd roars with awkward laughter...] - Anthony Citrano