NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying ...

But Curiosity wasn't the only one with a geological mystery. At the same time, roughly 2,300 miles away on the other side of ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

NASA’s Perseverance rovermade an unexpected discovery on the outer rim of Mars’s Jezero Crater: a rock so unusual in ...

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

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.

NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled. Named "St. Pauls Bay" by the mission team, the Mars rock features hundreds of millimeter-size dark ...

The British arm of Airbus has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the ...

"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

The NASA Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, suggesting that the conditions for life to develop could have been present on the planet billions of years ...

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A science experiment aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has found tantalizing traces of possible past life on Mars. But there ...