Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered some of the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars, and scientists say ordinary geology may not fully explain them.

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Famous Martian Meteorite Found Packed With Traces of 'Ancient Water' ...

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that ...

Witness the Red Planet like never before as NASA’s rovers capture swirling dust devils, shifting sands, and meteorite impacts. These dynamic phenomena reveal that Mars is far from a static world, ...

Scientists have scanned a popular rock from Mars and they found something surprising. The meteorite, known as Black Beauty or ...

NEW YORK, NY – More than 150 years after a Martian meteorite fell in India, a much larger relative is now making headlines—this time at a high-profile auction in New York. A massive chunk of Mars, ...

In A Nutshell Mars was erupting while T. rex roamed Earth: A Martian volcano system was active between 64 and 50 million ...

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 ...

In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of ...