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.

The organic carbon was found in mud samples dating back 3.5 billion years, just after Mars lost its atmosphere. U.S. World; ... Organic compounds are found all over the Red Planet.

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 ...

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.

The study also raises hopes that large organic molecules, including potential biosignatures—compounds that can only be formed by living organisms—could have been preserved on Mars despite the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A fireball meteor lit up midwestern skies on Jan. 16, 2018, then landed on a frozen Michigan lake. Analysis of the space rock revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

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 ...