The island also has a colorful origin story in Tongan mythology, which involves quarreling gods, a stolen mountain and a ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on ...

Surrounded by green hills and beige rock, Lake Salda sits in what is sometimes called the Turkish Lake District, a great place for hiking ...

which means there was enough time for life-forming chemistry to happen in these crater-lake environments on Mars,” said fellow researcher Daniel Glavin of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

The discovery of long-chain organic compounds in a 3.7-billion-year-old rock raises new questions about the Red Planet’s past ...

which means there was enough time for life-forming chemistry to happen in these crater-lake environments on Mars," said Daniel Glavin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in the statement ...

Long before the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs crashed to Earth, our planet was being bombarded by space rocks ... of Jezero Crater, which used to be an ancient crater lake that has long ...

The search for evidence of life on Mars just got a little more interesting with the discovery of large organic molecules in a ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition today with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama newt) under the ...