Martian Organic Geochemistry: Contextualizing Recent Organic Molecule Discoveries in the Search for Life's Origins

NASA's Curiosity Rover Discovers Organic Compounds on Mars, Including DNA-Related Molecules

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered more than 20 organic compounds in Martian rock samples from Gale Crater, including nitrogen-bearing mo

Perseverance Rover Discovers Organic-Carbon-Bearing Minerals with Potential Biosignatures in Jezero Crater, Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered organic-carbon-bearing mudstones in Mars' Jezero Crater that contain iron-phosphate and iron-sulfid

Nonliving respiration: Another breath in the soil?

Study: Early Earth's Asteroid Impacts May Have Enabled Prebiotic Chemistry

A new study published in AGU Advances examines how asteroid and planetesimal impacts during Earth's Hadean and Archean eons (4.6 to 3.5 bill

NASA Discovers Sugars and Unique Compounds in Asteroid Bennu Samples

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered asteroid Bennu samples containing three significant discoveries: sugars essential for biology, a pre

Microbe Chroococcidiopsis Shows Potential to Produce Oxygen from Martian Soil

Scientists have discovered that the extremophile microbe Chroococcidiopsis can grow on materials similar to Martian soil and produce oxygen,