In Photos: Enceladus, Saturn's Icy, ... Now, the discovery of these organic compounds in no way equates to the discovery of life or even necessarily the building blocks of life.

Most organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen, but they may also include any number of other elements (e.g., nitrogen, oxygen, halogens, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur). Originally limited to the ...

The organic compounds discovered—different combinations of carbon, hydrogen, and chlorine—are the same or similar to chlorinated organics detected in the mid-1970s by the Viking landers.

Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds Tissint, which crash landed in Morocco more than 11 years ago, is one of only five Martian meteorites that have been observed as ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected evidence of organic compounds in a huge 28-mile-wide crater on Mars for the first time. The discovery, which was published in the journal Nature, has ...

In 2013, the Curiosity rover drilled this hole, which measures about 0.6 inches wide and 2.6 inches deep, into martian rock. The sample is now thought to contain long-chain organic molecules. NASA ...

Water-based paints are often considered “green” products and labeled as containing little-to-no volatile organic compounds (VOCs). But some potentially hazardous chemicals, including VOCs, were still ...

Organic compounds – those containing carbon atoms – found all over Mars were produced by water interacting with volcanic rocks, according to the analysis of a Martian meteorite.