We state that these large amounts of long-chain alkane are not consistent with only a small number of known abiotic sources of organic molecules on ancient Mars. That single sentence encapsulates an ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered some of the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars, and scientists say ordinary geology may not fully explain them.

In the last ten years, researchers have started to characterize Mars less as a perpetually frozen desert and more as a planet that went through a tremendously ...

Mars Express and Curiosity detected methane and long-chain organic molecules in Gale Crater, including decane, undecane, and dodecane analyzed by the SAM laboratory.

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars has captured an amazing panorama of Gale Crater's rim and more from Mt. Sharp. The rover ...

Last year, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a fascinating discovery after boring into a suspected ancient lake bed on Mars: ...

Four astronauts will blast off Friday from Florida on a flight to the International Space Station. Here's how to watch: ...

The Deep Space Network enables communication with all the missions in space, from telescopes like Hubble to rovers and orbiters at Mars, and this week we feature one of those dishes alongside some ...

There are no simple solutions on the Martian surface. It is the kind of environment where you would expect molecules to decompose rather than endure—dusty, ...

Organic compounds discovered on the Red Planet cannot be fully explained by non-biological sources, say astrobiologists.

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...

Hubble keeps returning to the Egg Nebula because it changes in ways astronomers can actually track over years and decades. By comparing images taken at different times, scientists can see dust shift, ...