The molecules, while not a direct sign of life, still signal the existence of complex chemistry on the Red Planet.

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

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.

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

"If two dust devils happen upon each other, they can either obliterate one another or merge, with the stronger one consuming ...

But Curiosity wasn't the only one with a geological mystery. At the same time, roughly 2,300 miles away on the other side of ...

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

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

March 25 (UPI) --The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered ... these crater-lake environments on Mars," Daniel Glavin, a study co-author and senior scientist for sample return at NASA's Goddard ...

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 ...

They come from a 3.7-billion-year-old rock dubbed Cumberland, encountered by the rover at a presumed dried-up lakebed in Mars’ Gale Crater. Scientists used the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM ...