NASA's Curiosity rover has found iron-rich carbonates on Mars — a major clue that the Red Planet used to be habitable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA's Perseverance rover hits the Mars rock gold mine ... Space picture of the day By comparing Curiosity's findings with orbital data, scientists believe similar layers across the planet ...