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.

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.

Organic compounds found on asteroid and meteorite challenge ideas of where organic molecules formed The tests performed by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency collected by the spacecraft ...

This graphic shows the long-chain organic molecules decane, undecane, and dodecane. These are the largest organic molecules discovered on Mars to date.

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 ...

Paleontologists have long assumed that fossilization destroys all organic molecules in ancient remains. However, a ...

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 ...

Rover sampling finds organic molecules in water-altered rocks on Mars No clear implications for life, but some samples could be brought back to Earth.

We're not special. Or our complex organic molecules aren't, anyway. And that's good news in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. In a new study published Wednesday in Nature, astronomers found 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 ...

The NASA Mars Perseverance rover found signs of organic molecules in Jezero Crater. This suggests that life's building blocks were scattered across the planet.

The Curiosity rover has collected samples from Gale Crater that contain complex organic material Mars is full of the organic molecules that life needs to thrive. Two studies from the Curiosity ...