Though this discovery doesn’t constitute definitive proof of life, the complexity of these molecules is significant. The ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

NASA's Curiosity rover finds sulfur-rich crystals on Mars, hinting at ancient water and potential life-supporting conditions.

Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...

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

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

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered intriguing traces of sulfur crystals embedded in Martian rock formations, adding weight ...

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

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

Scientists analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA's Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the red ...

We can’t say the molecules are the product of life, but the findings indicate if Mars had life billions of years ago, the ...