Organic molecules found by the Curiosity rover are too common to be explained by any process we know, other than life, according to a new study. That, of course, doesn’t rule out the possibility that ...

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There are no simple solutions on the Martian surface. It is the kind of environment where you would expect molecules to decompose rather than endure—dusty, ...

Organic compounds discovered on the Red Planet cannot be fully explained by non-biological sources, say astrobiologists.

Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 6, 2026 The results from ...

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 ...

That does not mean that the detected alkanes are evidence of life on Mars; the conclusion relies on modeling how radiation ...

Scientists combined lab radiation experiments, mathematical modeling and Curiosity data to ‘rewind the clock’ about 80 million years — the length of time the rock would have ...

Mars’ water disappeared somewhere, but scientists have been disagreeing for years about where exactly it went. Data from rovers like Perseverance and Curiosity, along with orbiting satellites such as ...

The key to solving the mystery of the Viking results is the discovery of perchlorate on the Martian surface in 2008.

In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of ...