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

Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

The theme is "Mission to Mars," and while the "afterburner" orange ... the only salute to the Grammy Award-winning artist is a topography of Lake Minnetonka under the brim of the cap.

Inner planets are the four planets closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are collectively ... slope and demonstrate the influence of topography on local metre-scale temperatures ...

Scientists analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA's Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the red ...

For the first time on a global scale, 20 years of observations on Mars have been condensed into a single study led by ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed. Scientists have announced ...

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

Elon Musk aims to colonize Mars despite challenges such as its extreme climate, thin atmosphere, and lack of liquid water. The mission faces threats like dust storms, radiation exposure ...

The discovery of long-chain organic compounds in a 3.7-billion-year-old rock raises new questions about the Red Planet’s past ...