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

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

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

Pale rocks on the red planet reveal a watery past and suggest the potential for life. Sometimes, scientists have to dig, work ...

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

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

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

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

‘There is evidence that liquid water existed in Gale Crater for millions of years and probably much longer, which means there ...

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...