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

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 ...

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

For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red ...

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

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

For now that remains speculation, but while the presence of long-chain alkanes is not a smoking gun for life on Mars, they could be a big clue. However, Curiosity rover's SAM instruments are ...

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

These are known as alkanes, which fall under the ... The longest carbon chains found in Cumberland are 12 atoms long. Organic molecules preserved in ancient Martian rocks provide a critical ...