A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that ...
Mars has long tempted scientists with hints of chemistry that might once have supported life. Now a NASA-led study argues ...
Organic compounds discovered on the Red Planet cannot be fully explained by non-biological sources, say astrobiologists.
A year ago, NASA announced that its Mars rover Curiosity had discovered long-chain organic compounds. Their quantity suggests ...
Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...
A new paper suggests that BARSOOM may have been alive on the planet, and was killed in the Viking experiments.
A Martian rock that landed on Earth could hold clues about water on the Red Planet - and the possibility of extraterrestrial ...
After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...