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

The search for evidence of life on Mars just got a little more interesting with the discovery of large organic molecules in a ...

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

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

Scientists know from extensive study here on Earth that life doesn't sprout from nothing—it requires a complex (and often ...

Researchers caution that the molecules could be of abiotic or biological origin, and do not represent definitive proof of ...

Scientists found the longest organic molecules ever on Mars — ancient carbon chains that resemble the building blocks of life ...