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

Mysterious tunnels in desert rocks may be the work of unknown microbes, hinting at a hidden world inside marble and limestone ...

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing ...

I'm really rooting for the Stanford University researchers working on this carbon removal method. They've found a way to activate materials commonly found in rocks to capture carbon dioxide out of ...

The interaction of ancient water on Mars with olivine-rich rocks converted carbon dioxide into methane, which could have been ...

especially in carbon-rich ecosystems such as grasslands. Other "natural" CDR solutions include the use of charcoal known as ...

Minerals are typically formed when molten rock, or magma, cools, or by separating out of mineral-rich water ... Diamonds, made of carbon atoms, are the hardest natural substance found on Earth.

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.