NASA's Curiosity rover has found iron-rich carbonates on Mars, offering new clues about the planet's ancient climate and ...

Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, ...

Could Mars have really been home to alien lifeforms? NASA's most recent discovery, made by its Curiosity Rover on the Red ...

Though most of the region surrounding the rock is light-colored and dusty, Skull Hill is dark, angular, and covered in tiny ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

The find brings researchers closer to answering the question about whether Mars was ever capable of supporting life. The post ...

A treasure trove of clues from Curiosity reveals that ancient Mars once trapped massive amounts of CO2 in its crust, thanks to surprising concentrations of iron carbonate deep in Gale Crater. By ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has drilled the Mars’ subsurface in three to four centimeters to extract the findings. Explore details of the mission.