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

A self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity rover taken on June 15, 2018, when a Martian dust storm had reduced sunlight and visibility at the rover’s location in Gale Crater. (Image: NASA) A study published ...

The Curiosity rover, along the lower slopes of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater, has reportedly uncovered the largest organic ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

The Curiosity rover is travelling along the lower slopes of Mount Sharp (Mars), a large mountain in the center of Gale Crater ...

A year ago, NASA announced that its Mars rover Curiosity had discovered long-chain organic compounds. Their quantity suggests ...

More than a decade after landing in Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered something unexpected in the Martian ...

Mars's water disappeared somewhere, but scientists have been disagreeing for years about where exactly it went.

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered ...

The team found that the walls of the drill hole were smooth enough to allow another attempt to see the underlying layers.