Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing ...
Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
"Fossil feathers are usually preserved in ancient mudrocks laid down in lakes or lagoons. The fossil vulture is preserved in ...
By tapping into existing hydrogen accumulations and stimulating underground rocks to make more of the electron-rich gas, a new crop of energy entrepreneurs think they can put low-carbon hydrogen ...
Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...
NASA’s Curiosity Martian rover finds organic-like, long-chain alkanes preserved in the planet’s mudstone Twelve years after ...
Thermal emission measurements from the exoplanet Trappist-1 b suggest two plausible yet contradictory scenarios ...
The centres of the leopard spots are rich in iron and sulfur ... seeds and leopard spots formed when carbon-containing ‘organic’ compounds in the rock reacted with iron and sulfate minerals.
The mine contains about six million tonnes of graphite, a critical mineral, but most of its equipment dates back to the ...
Scientists found the longest organic molecules ever on Mars — ancient carbon chains that resemble the building blocks of life ...