NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered some of the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars, and scientists say ordinary geology may not fully explain them.

Mars Express and Curiosity detected methane and long-chain organic molecules in Gale Crater, including decane, undecane, and dodecane analyzed by the SAM laboratory.

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INSIDE THIS REPORT The discovery did not arrive with spectacle. It arrived in spectral lines—quiet, technical, and unmistakable. NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has now detected organic molecules streaming ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...

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In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of ...

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

Known non-biological sources, from meteorites to surface chemistry, fall short of accounting for organic compounds detected ...

A common iron mineral hiding in soil turns out to be far better at trapping carbon than scientists realized. Its surface ...

Using robots and click chemistry, scientists built potential active ingredients for future antibiotics that contain metal. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A reaction scheme showing a hydrazone being converted into a diazo compound using an enzyme, potassium bromide, and hydrogen peroxide. Researchers at Emory University repurposed a vanadium-dependent ...