Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for early life.

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

To kick off Randolph College’s annual science festival "SciFest," NASA planetary protection engineer Moogega Cooper urged attendees to persevere, stay curious and question rules in their own lives.

The formations have drawn comparisons to Martian blueberries, a type of small, spherical rock formation first discovered by ...

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

Pale rocks on the red planet reveal a watery past and suggest the potential for life. Sometimes, scientists have to dig, work ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

But Curiosity wasn't the only one with a geological mystery. At the same time, roughly 2,300 miles away on the other side of ...

The British arm of Airbus has won a 150 million pound ($194 million) contract from the European Space Agency to build the ...

A science experiment aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has found tantalizing traces of possible past life on Mars. But there ...