For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red ...

Three long-chain alkanes detected by Nasa’s Curiosity rover could be chemical biosignatures that point to a history of past ...

Inside the fine-grained mudstone were traces of decane ... They recreated Martian conditions in a lab, mixing Mars-like clay with undecanoic acid, a fatty acid. When heated in the same way ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

revealing that Yellowknife Bay was once the site of an ancient lake where clay minerals formed in water. The mudstone created an environment that could concentrate and preserve organic molecules ...