Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant ...

Explore the latest find from NASA’s Curiosity rover and what it reveals about organic matter beyond our planet.

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...

Earlier this year, the tiny rocket company that wants to grow up to be SpaceX someday told NASA that, if it's agreeable, ...

Martian dust could threaten astronaut health and equipment, with toxic particles causing lung damage and mission failures.

Mars has always captured the imagination of space explorers, and now new findings are showing that the Red Planet’s dust ...

The discovery of long-chain organic compounds in a 3.7-billion-year-old rock raises new questions about the Red Planet’s past ...

Elon Musk predicts a self-sustaining Mars colony within 20 years, requiring one million people and massive cargo shipments.

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

If Mars becomes a human colony is anyone’s guess. Musk said 2016 that it would take 40 to 100 years to have a self-sustaining ...