NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The discovery was made in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks inside Gale Crater. These molecules show that ancient Mars ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy in a statement. “The identification of a potential biosignature ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

Yet another tantalizing clue. The post NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars appeared ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered ...

NASA's Curiosity rover, which launched in 2011 from Florida, found signs of organic material that on Earth is most often ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover investigates boxwork rock formations on Mount Sharp to gather evidence of ancient groundwater on Mars.

Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for help NASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the ...