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

While ascending Mount Sharp, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has had to swing around a small ridgeline dubbed "Devil’s Gate." ...

The NASA Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, suggesting that the ... and nitrates and methane, which on Earth can be associated with living things ...

if it ever existed on Mars,” said Freissinet in a press release. NASA hopes to return samples cached by Curiosity’s fellow rover, Perseverance, to Earth for analysis sometime in the 2030s.

A stunning discovery on Mars has revealed the longest organic molecules ever found on the planet—carbon chains that could ...

Curiosity’s finding feels “so close” to helping make that determination, but the answers are more likely to come from studying samples on Earth, he said. “I’m more optimistic that we’re going to ...

The U.S. space agency's Perseverance and Curiosity ... geology of Mars may hold valuable clues about past ancient life, and so the robotic vehicles, controlled remotely from Earth, have slowly ...

The NASA Curiosity ... at Mars. Scientists believe the long chains of molecules could be fragments of fatty acids, which are organic molecules that are chemical building blocks of life on Earth ...