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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one of the most significant findings in the search for ...

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 Martian explorer Curiosity has found yet another mystery on the rocky road towards Mars' boxwork region. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech Aliens aren't terraforming Mars, but one of NASA's rovers ...

After spending months and more than $250 million campaigning to elect President Trump, Elon Musk made a call late last year to help roll out his plan for humanity’s path beyond Earth.

that they could make NASA great again and work toward their shared ambition of getting humans to Mars, according to people briefed on the conversation. Soon after the call, Trump announced ...

NASA researchers are one step closer to determining whether those conditions have ever existed on Mars. In one of the Curiosity rover's rock samples, they identified long-chain hydrocarbons ...

She consulted with NASA and SpaceX to send the first fungi into orbit on a 3-day flight. Fayet-Moore says fungi, due to their nutritional benefits and fast growth cycle, may help us get to Mars.

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