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.

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

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 ...

Elon Musk aims to colonize Mars despite challenges such as its extreme climate, thin atmosphere, and lack of liquid water.

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