What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

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

Experts have found long carbon chains, containing up to 12 consecutive atoms, in samples of Martian rock which date back ...

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

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Although abiotic processes can form these acids, they are considered universal products of biochemistry - terrestrial ... Planet, despite there being no visible liquid on the surface of Mars ...

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

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

Researchers caution that the molecules could be of abiotic or biological origin, and do not represent definitive proof of ...

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