The strongest hints yet that Mars once hosted living microbes are no longer theoretical models or ambiguous chemistry. They are etched into a single, oddly speckled rock in an ancient riverbed, where ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The discovery was made in ...

The discovery is based on previous Curiosity findings revealed since 2018 about basic organics found on Mars though the quantity of such findings is comparatively huge this time.

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Organic compounds discovered on the Red Planet cannot be fully explained by non-biological sources, say astrobiologists.

Mars, the planet we see today—arid, cold, and covered in red dust—may have once been a "blue planet" with a vast ocean that covered the entire Northern Hemisphere.

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New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...

Scientists suspect that the surface of Mars was once teeming with water, a lush oasis full of river systems and lakes — until a dramatic change in the planet’s magnetic field caused it to lose most of ...