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Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...

The key to solving the mystery of the Viking results is the discovery of perchlorate on the Martian surface in 2008.

A year ago, NASA announced that its Mars rover Curiosity had discovered long-chain organic compounds. Their quantity suggests ...

Scientists confirm that clocks on Mars run faster than on Earth and will change global space navigation in the future ...

This isn’t the famous sample reported last September, but another with different signs of past life we’re struggling to ...

Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can ...

In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of ...

A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The discovery was made in ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered ...

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that ...