Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...

The efforts made by humans to learn as much as possible about Mars are numerous, and NASA has an indispensable ally on the ...

For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

Is there life on Mars? When curiosity breaks through a rock, it reveals this within. Sulfur crystals were discovered on the ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

From its perch in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high mountain, you can see over an expanse of plains, called Aeolis Palus, ...

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on ...