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

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Finds Large Organic Molecules is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week ...

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

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

Scientists are confident Mars was once abundant with water, as seen in massive flood-carved channels, ancient river valleys, ...

Mars might hold enough subsurface water to cover its surface in a global ocean between 0.62 to 1.24 miles (1 to 2 kilometers) ...

According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia slammed ... and Theia's to create a set of common features between Earth's crust and the ...

Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new analysis.

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to get your nerd on. Know what today is? It's Pi Day. What's that you say? Why, it's March ...

The water-rich iron mineral ferrihydrite may be the main culprit behind Mars's reddish dust, rather than the dry, rust-like mineral known as hematite.

More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...