One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do that, scientists need untouched samples—material that hasn’t been ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

Take, for example, the notion that life on Earth emerged out of something called a “primordial soup” —a fluid mix of organic compounds that contained the necessary ingredients for biology.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start.

Ingredients to life on Earth discovered on distant asteroid for first time Data from a 5 billion-year-old asteroid suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our ...