Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has unearthed compelling evidence of a past carbon cycle on Mars, discovering siderite within Gale ...

This is the Curiosity rover, which roams daily on Mars to discover as much as possible about it. However, its latest discovery has surprised all the experts. Most striking of all, the Curiosity ...

Samples drilled by the Curiosity rover on Mars have revealed abundant signs of a carbon cycle that remained hidden from ...

A major discovery of the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars has been made. The carbon chains could be an example of life on the Red Planet. The molecules point to a more complicated past ...

While the discovery in Martian mudstone isn't nearly definitive proof of past life on Mars — these fatty acids can also be formed via non-biological processes — it does show that such ...

As revealed in the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this discovery pushes the boundaries and suggests that Mars once had the chemical complexity to host life.

Scientists say they have made a "shocking" discovery on Mars. NASA's Perseverance Science Team was "astonished by a strange rock" comprised of hundreds of millimeter-sized spheres - some with tiny ...

This article examines the remarkable discovery made by the Perseverance rover alongside its scientific consequences for Mars research. This Martian rock discovery has everyone asking: What are these ...

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A SECRET space nuke could help Britain colonise Mars and even travel to the other side of the Solar System. The Sunbird is set to shake up space exploration as it promises to fly to Mars in half ...

Scientists have announced the discovery of the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars. These molecules could have come from the breakdown of fatty acids that existed 3.7 billion years ago ...