Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed on the Red Planet. The U.S. space agency's Perseverance and Curiosity ...

These molecules, discovered in a rock sample drilled in 2013, offer fresh insights into the potential of Mars to support life. The findings suggest that Mars might have hosted more advanced prebiotic ...

Has it always been this way? We have songs like Life On Mars dedicated to it, many films such as The Martian exploring the potentials of space travel and of course, we even have the Curiosity ...

The largest organic molecules ever found on Mars have now been identified by scientists. The compounds, discovered in ancient rocks, could be evidence of past life. They show that there were ...

In addition to food, water, and oxygen gas, the distance between Earth and Mars also complicates the delivery of crucial medical supplies, and astronauts cannot be rushed back to Earth for life-saving ...

Found in a sample from Gale Crater’s Yellowknife Bay, these molecules suggest Mars once hosted conditions suitable for complex chemical evolution, possibly even life. Although the origin of the ...

But they ended up discovering something else entirely: the largest organic compounds ever documented on Mars. The compounds date to 3.7 billion years ago—around the same time that life first ...

While the discovery in Martian mudstone isn't nearly definitive proof of past life on Mars — these fatty acids can also be formed via non-biological processes — it does show that such ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled ... since 2021 for signs of past microbial life. Scientists say determining the geological origins ...