Curiosity has detected a surprising variety of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds tied to the chemistry of life.

NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie at a site on Mars where it drilled a sample to search for organic molecules in ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has identified seven new organic compounds on the planet Mars, according to new research published in ...

Seven of the organic molecules were found for the first time ever on the Red Planet, including compounds that are chemical ...

In early 2026, a photo circulated online that claimed to authentically show a blue sunset on Mars. The earliest version of ...

NASA has committed to running two competing landing architectures side by side for its Mars Sample Return mission, a strategy the agency has never attempted for a planetary return campaign. The ...

Several of the newly identified molecules are considered foundational to life’s chemistry.

The search for signs of life on Mars continues to yield promising data. A first-of-its-kind wet chemistry experiment, ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...

NASA’s long-promised journey to Mars has often sounded like a hazy promise, safely parked in the “sometime in the 2030s” bucket. Yet the pieces now sliding into place, from lunar test flights to ...