For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red ...

What makes a planet a planet? And what makes a star a star? Once we know this these defining characteristics, we start to notice that these definitions can overlap. Which begs the question ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed ...

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

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

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would ...

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

The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ...

Scientists analyzed a sample, which likely contained fatty acids, that transformed into alkanes during the heating process ...

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

NASA launched its most powerful planet-hunting telescope to date ... of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be the largest observatory ever launched into space. JWST will take pictures in infrared ...

Scientists have announced the discovery of the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars ... laid down by an ancient lake on the Red Planet. While molecules don't exactly prove the existence ...