NASA's Curiosity rover has found a diverse mix of organic molecules on Mars, including chemicals considered building blocks for the origin of life on Earth.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English ...

Finding life on Mars might be closer than we thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet, the space agency says.

The organic molecules discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover could have been formed by life, but they could have also come from geologic processes or meteorites ...

The search for signs of life on Mars continues to yield promising data. A first-of-its-kind wet chemistry experiment, published Tuesday in Nature, confirmed the presence of essential ingredients of ...

Here's why these new results are so encouraging for scientists.

The sample locations where Curiosity snagged three samples of drilled rock at this site on its way out of the Glen Torridon region. Analyzing these samples revealed diverse organic molecules on Mars. ...

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

This image was captured on Oct. 2, 2013 on the 411th sol, or Mars day, of the Curiosity rover's mission on the planet. On the ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered never-before-seen organic compounds that may indicate there was once life on the red planet. The nuclear-powered robot uncovered a diverse mix of organic ...