Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

Considering humans don't have a spacecraft capable of traveling to planets beyond the solar system, scientists have to get creative if they want to find clues of life existing light-years away. Now a ...

New microlightning research out of Stanford adds a "striking" twist to an existing theory about how life may have originated ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical ...

Using powerful supercomputers and cutting-edge software, scientists have conducted the first-ever fully 3D simulations of ...

A separate laser spectrometer analyzes the gases, searching for signs of water and smaller organic molecules such as methane. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

NASA’s Curiosity Martian rover finds organic-like, long-chain alkanes preserved in the planet’s mudstone Twelve years after ...

The diameters of the inert gases as found in this way are given in the second column of the following table: ...

IN a paper on secondary radiation from gases subject to X-rays (Phil ... constituting the molecules of the gas. More recently I have found that from light solids which emit a secondary radiation ...