While ascending Mount Sharp, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has had to swing around a small ridgeline dubbed "Devil’s Gate." ...

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

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 ...

The molecules, while not a direct sign of life, still signal the existence of complex chemistry on the Red Planet.

The NASA Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic molecules found to date on Mars, opening a window into the red ...

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

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

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.