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

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 ...

This week in science: Mysterious molecules on Mars are tricky to explain without life; a compound that cuts cholesterol as a ...

NASA’s rover Perseverance spent nearly a year exploring the rim of a crater believed to have held a huge lake.

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

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