14.6-Million-Year-Old Fossil of a Female Bee Well Preserved in Organic Mudstone Discovered, Oldest Bee Specimen Bees are mostly seen buzzing around and working hard to turn nectar from flowers ...

Three long-chain alkanes detected by Nasa’s Curiosity rover could be chemical biosignatures that point to a history of past ...

For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red ...

The Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules yet discovered on Mars within a Cumberland mudstone in Gale Crater. The mudstone is 3.7 billion years old, which is when the molecules ...

A science experiment aboard NASA's Curiosity rover has found tantalizing traces of possible past life on Mars. But there could be other explanations for where these compounds came from.

As Ian swung a pickax into the mudstone, Dane attempted to roll a cigarette between gusts. Loose tobacco flew from the paper. “Doggone it,” he said, and tried again. Along with Scott Sampson ...