A new hypothesis from SETI Institute scientist Dr. Janice Bishop and Dr. Melissa Lane from Fibernetics in Pennsylvania could ...

A stunning discovery on Mars has revealed the longest organic molecules ever found on the planet—carbon chains that could ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed through a non-biological process ...

Curiosity has met one of its major goals: sampling Martian clay. The rover drilled into the dirt in the Gale Crater, NASA said in a press conference yesterday (March 12), and extracted a clay sample ...

A recent study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggested that Mars' missing atmosphere might have been ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic ...

Astro Clay, retired NASA astronaut, says he thinks “it’s good that there’s competition” and that both Blue Origin and SpaceX ...

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would have require chemistry to reach a more advanced state to be produced. The ...

The scientists tested their prediction in the lab, mixing undecanoic acid into a Mars-like clay and conducting a SAM-like experiment. After being heated, the undecanoic acid released decane ...

The robot has found clay minerals in a type of rock called Esperance. It means the rock may have had a lot of contact with water in the past. Image caption, Esperance rock on Mars may have been ...

The Cumberland rock is made from clay-rich sedimentary material laid down ... chemistry to happen in these crater-lake environments on Mars," said Daniel Glavin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

The lack of geological activity and the cold, arid climate on Mars have helped preserve this invaluable organic matter in a clay-rich sample for the past 3.7 billion years. It therefore dates from ...