Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

Lightning long ago escaped the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere—scientists have already discovered lightning blazing through the skies of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Now they think they’ve found it on ...

Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

Samples taken from an ancient Mars rock may indicate that ancient life once existed on the Red Planet, according to a study ...

For decades, scientists have imagined Martian life as something that might look faintly familiar, perhaps microbes not so different from those that once thrived in Earth’s ancient seas. A new wave of ...

Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking missions to Mars made groundbreaking attempts to detect life on the Red Planet. While the ...

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Scientists have discovered traces of organic molecules on the Red Planet and are not ruling out the possibility that they were produced by living organisms.

The discovery is based on previous Curiosity findings revealed since 2018 about basic organics found on Mars though the ...

Delta on Mars. A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another ...