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.

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical ...

The island also has a colorful origin story in Tongan mythology, which involves quarreling gods, a stolen mountain and a ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on ...

which means there was enough time for life-forming chemistry to happen in these crater-lake environments on Mars,” said fellow researcher Daniel Glavin of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

The search for evidence of life on Mars just got a little more interesting with the discovery of large organic molecules in a ...

Long before the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs crashed to Earth, our planet was being bombarded by space rocks ... of Jezero Crater, which used to be an ancient crater lake that has long ...

The discovery of long-chain organic compounds in a 3.7-billion-year-old rock raises new questions about the Red Planet’s past ...