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

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed through a non-biological process ...

Generation of hydrogen (H₂) by means of photocatalysis has been at the forefront of research since the 1970s because it can ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would have require chemistry to reach a more advanced state to be produced. The ...

Additional organic compounds, he suggests, could have formed later in Earth’s primordial soup or were delivered to our planet by comets and meteorites. The odds of meteorites reaching Earth got ...

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing to a growing library of compounds that could be a vital clue about the ...

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