The ongoing search for signs of past life on planet Mars is yet to deliver conclusive proof that the neighboring world was once alive, but from time to time our pulse accelerates with news of some ...

If there’s ever been life on Mars, she could be the one to find it. To discover the earliest signs of life on Earth, astrobiologist Abigail Allwood trekked to an isolated Australian desert.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars, making a big breakthrough in the search ...

A related study suggests that similar deposits, which were left behind from ancient lakes, may be a good place to look for signs of former life on Mars. Researchers have found microbes thriving 13 ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

As far as anyone knows, there’s no life currently sticking it out ... as living organisms like certain species of mushrooms. But why does Mars have such molecules? That’s what scientists ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...