Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing ...

Scientists analyzed a sample, which likely contained fatty acids, that transformed into alkanes during the heating process ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

LOS ANGELES, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Researchers examining pulverized rock samples aboard NASA's Curiosity rover have discovered the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars, according to a new study ...

NASA’s Curiosity Martian rover finds organic-like, long-chain alkanes preserved in the planet’s mudstone Twelve years after ...

Experts have found long carbon chains, containing up to 12 consecutive atoms, in samples of Martian rock which date back billions of years.

The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected by scientists from the CNRS, together ...

Ohio State University announced former astronaut and Marine Maj. Gen. Charles Frank Bolden Jr. as this spring’s commencement speaker. Bolden was NASA’s ...

Curiosity rover cracked open a Martian rock, revealing a sight never before seen on Mars - a dazzling display of yellow ...

From its perch in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high mountain, you can see over an expanse of plains, called Aeolis Palus, ...

Spend $12 billion on new space exploration plan over next five years. $1bn will be new money, the rest reallocated from existing NASA programs. •Retire shuttle program by 201 ...

There are a couple potential explanations for distinctive markings found on a Martian rock, but new evidence suggests they ...