Mars has always captured the imagination of space explorers, and now new findings are showing that the Red Planet’s dust ...
Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...
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.
The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed ...
They were found by NASA's Curiosity rover when it drilled into a sample of mudstone from a rock nicknamed 'Cumberland', in the Yellowknife Bay region of Mars' Gale crater, all the way back in 2013.