They were found by NASA's Curiosity rover when it drilled into a sample of mudstone from a rock nicknamed 'Cumberland', in the Yellowknife Bay region of Mars' Gale crater, all the way back in 2013.

NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled. Named "St. Pauls Bay" by the mission team, the Mars rock features hundreds of millimeter-size dark ...

The NASA Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, suggesting that the conditions for life to develop could have been present on the planet billions of years ...

March 25 (UPI) --The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising speculation about if life was created billions of years ago ...

The tough environment is challenging for humans to land on and explore. This is where a Mars rover comes in handy. The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the fire god Zhurong, a character in ...

The samples were collected by the 'Sample Analysis at Mars' (SAM) – one of the instruments on-board NASA's Curiosity Rover which has been studying the Gale crater since 2012. It has a gas ...

Studying these layers can give scientists insights into the environmental conditions during the rocks' formation, which can help reconstruct Mars' geological history. It was while the rover was ...

In 2013, the Curiosity rover drilled this hole ... the largest organic compounds ever documented on Mars. The compounds date to 3.7 billion years ago—around the same time that life first ...

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This graphic shows the long-chain organic molecules decane, undecane, and dodecane. These are the largest organic molecules discovered on Mars to date. They were detected in a drilled rock sample ...