NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...

Though most of the region surrounding the rock is light-colored and dusty, Skull Hill is dark, angular, and covered in tiny ...

Samples drilled by the Curiosity rover on Mars have revealed abundant signs of a carbon cycle that remained hidden from ...

Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, ...

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered siderite, a carbonate mineral, beneath Mars’ surface—providing new clues that the Red ...

The find brings researchers closer to answering the question about whether Mars was ever capable of supporting life. The post ...

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered groundbreaking mineral clues that may finally explain why Mars lost its atmosphere and ...

Billions of years ago, Mars was warm, wet, and capable of sustaining liquid water on its surface. Scientists have long ...

Findings could address a key mystery about Mars’s ancient past: How and when was the planet’s atmosphere thick enough to ...

NASA believes that examining other sulfate-rich areas could validate these findings and further illuminate Mars’ ...