NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars ' irradiated surface.

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

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

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

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

Scientists used the Sample Analysis at Mars (Sam) instrument on the NASA rover to make their discovery. Scientists were actually looking for evidence of amino acids, which are the building blocks ...

New research has revealed why carbonaceous asteroids, some of the most chemically primitive materials in the solar system, ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest ...