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

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

The Curiosity rover identified hidden caches of the mineral siderite, which could help explain why Mars lost its habitable climate.

Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected relatively high levels of it in the ...

A team led by UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering has discovered materials that defy convention, shrinking when heated ...

Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected an intriguing compound in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2-18 b, but scientists are divided about what the chemical means ...

NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing chicken nuggets in the lab, and a drug like LSD -- without the trip.