At 3:30 am on March 19, the inky predawn skies over the Gulf of Mexico were pierced by the fiery re-entry of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule. Inside, NASA astronauts Su ...

SpaceX, under Musk's influence, is securing substantial government contracts and support across multiple federal agencies.

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...

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

NASA's Curiosity rover has identified the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, including decane, undecane, and dodecane, in a 3.7 billion-year-old rock sample. These findings suggest Mars ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled. Named "St. Pauls Bay" by the mission team, the Mars rock features hundreds of millimeter-size dark ...

March 25 (UPI) --The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising speculation about if life was created billions of years ago ...

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.

Mars is one of the only other places NASA know life may have existed in the solar system. The Red Planet is the fourth from the Sun and its reddish surface is covered in iron oxide dust.

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