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

For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

Perhaps one of the most valuable samples Curiosity has gathered on its mission to understand whether Mars was ever habitable was collected in May 2013. The rover drilled the Cumberland sample from ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

The feature’s many layers preserve millions of years of geological history on Mars, showing how it shifted from a wet to a dry environment. Perhaps one of the most valuable samples Curiosity has ...

NASA researchers are one step closer to determining whether those conditions have ever existed on Mars. In one of the Curiosity rover's rock samples, they identified long-chain hydrocarbons ...