A team of researchers has uncovered intriguing evidence suggesting that a mountain on the rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater could be ...

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.

Scientists have discovered that a large mountain on the edge of Mars’ Jezero Crater is likely a volcano—a finding that could ...

Humanity’s search for life on Mars has taken a significant step forward with the discovery of organic molecules that resemble key building blocks of life on Earth. Since landing in 2012, NASA’s ...

In fact, the life that could be – emphasis on the could be – thriving on a distant ocean-covered planet named K2-18b is likely not intelligent at all. But that doesn't make the recent ...

A 2023 op-ed for Big Think, written by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D., proposes that the NASA Viking landers of the 1970s potentially discovered signs of life on Mars—only for scientists to ...

The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

The Mars Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules yet on the Red Planet. Organic molecules are the building blocks of life, although they can also be produced by geological processes.

To settle the matter, the researchers trained an algorithm on a dataset of confirmed slope streak sightings, as detailed in a study published Monday in the journal Nature Communications. They then ...

Related: Curiosity rover finds largest carbon chains on Mars from 3.7 billion-year-old rock To investigate this, the scientists behind the study trained a machine learning algorithm on confirmed ...

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.