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.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The longest molecules ever found on Mars ... are still present at Mars' surface 3.7 billion years after their formation allows us to make a new statement: If life ever ...

This image was captured on March 13, 2025 — sol 1444, or Martian day 1,444 of the Mars 2020 mission — at ... According to the statement about the new sphere-studded specimen, however, this ...

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

NASA's Curiosity rover has identified the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars ... NASA's Curiosity rover has recently made two new discoveries on Mars with both leading to surprising ...

But according to new research, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, large molecules found on Mars apparently ... life—or at least, the things that undergird ...

The NASA Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, suggesting that the ... which on Earth can be associated with living things (though which can come from ...

which they believe once belonged to the largest organic molecule found on Mars to date. Their research is described in a new paper for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Curiosity ...

Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant countermeasures, new research ... until research found that it caused ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled ... According to the statement about the new sphere-studded specimen, however, this rock may ...