In a quiet corner of an ancient riverbed on Mars, a speckled rock has pushed the search for extraterrestrial life into its most tantalizing phase yet. NASA now says the layered stone, drilled by the ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. Found inside a 3.7-billion-year-old rock from a dried-up lakebed, these long-chain carbon molecules raise new ...