The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life. CNN values your feedback 1.

A recent discovery of organic compounds in billion-year-old ancient rocks in Australia helps illuminate the early history of eukaryotes, according to a new study.

This graphic shows the long-chain organic molecules decane, undecane, and dodecane. These are the largest organic molecules discovered on Mars to date. NASA/Dan Gallagher Despite its freezing ...

Such organic carbon molecules are the building blocks of life as we know it on Earth. The rover has found similar organic matter on Mars before, in samples excavated from other spots along the ...

Scientists have discovered a complex organic molecule, similar to the ones life as we know it is based on, in an interstellar cloud 27 thousand light-years away. The molecule itself is the most ...

Titan is perhaps the most Earth-like place in our solar system, except the ingredients are jumbled up: ocean below ground, landforms of water ice instead of rock, rains of organic compounds, an ...

New evidence suggests that organic molecules, the building blocks for life, are not bound to a particular corner of Mars. Instead, they might be found all over the place. In a study published ...