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

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

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

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

NASA's Curiosity rover has identified the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, including decane, undecane, and ...

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

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

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

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 made a compelling find on Mars ' irradiated surface.

While Curiosity mission scientists have previously identified small, simple organic molecules on the red planet, the ...