“The discovery of abundant siderite in Gale Crater represents both a surprising and important breakthrough in our ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red ...

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

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

While slowly climbing the slopes of Mount Sharp — a towering peak inside Mars' Gale Crater — NASA's Curiosity rover made a ...

Scientists are eager to find out whether Mars was once capable of supporting life, and according to new Curiosity findings, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered a missing piece in the puzzle of Mars' past atmosphere. Scientists discovered ...

Billions of years ago, Mars was warm, wet, and capable of sustaining liquid water on its surface. Scientists have long ...

A brush-and-sample mission had to be skipped as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover found itself on unstable ground, but this opened ...

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon ...

Here’s the latest dirt on Mars. NASA’s trusty Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the so-called red planet for years, just unearthed something huge — a stash of carbon-rich carbonate minerals ...