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

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying ...

The British arm of Airbus has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the ...

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.

They were found by NASA's Curiosity rover when it drilled into a sample of mudstone from a rock nicknamed 'Cumberland', in the Yellowknife Bay region of Mars' Gale crater, all the way back in 2013.

NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled. Named "St. Pauls Bay" by the mission team, the Mars rock features hundreds of millimeter-size dark ...

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

Airbus UK has secured a £150m contract to engineer the landing platform for Europe’s first Mars rover. The Rosalind Franklin ...

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS NASA's Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars' irradiated surface. The car-sized robot's molecule-sleuthing instrument, called Sample Analysis at Mars ...

The NASA Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, suggesting that the conditions for life to develop could have been present on the planet billions of years ...

The formations have drawn comparisons to Martian blueberries, a type of small, spherical rock formation first discovered by ...