Big insight: Mars can preserve chemically informative organic material for billions of years under the right conditions, ...

Searching for organic molecules in rocks on Mars is no easy task. Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument is designed to analyze the chemical composition of gases, which it creates by ...

Lab work isn't the only way to be at the forefront of scientific discovery. Designing and conducting experiments in a wet lab may seem like every scientist's dream. However, the reality of working at ...

In a quest to answer the question of habitability, scientists equipped Curiosity with a suite of instruments and ...

For today’s episode of For Science! we show you an easy way to get those pesky helium balloon down from the rafters after a celebration. This experiment is very simple and straight-forward but will ...