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

Scientists have found unusual, blueberry-like rocks on Mars that could give us more insights into its geological history.

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

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

Mars has always captured the imagination of space explorers, and now new findings are showing that the Red Planet’s dust ...

The discovery of long-chain organic compounds in a 3.7-billion-year-old rock raises new questions about the Red Planet’s past ...

Scientists analyzed a sample, which likely contained fatty acids, that transformed into alkanes during the heating process ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found traces of decane, undecane and dodecane in Martian rock. These compounds are thought to be ...

While Curiosity mission scientists have previously identified small, simple organic molecules on the red planet, the ...

Scientists have discovered the largest organic compounds ever detected on Mars, raising the prospects of life having been present on the red planet. Curiosity drilled into the rock target known as ...