They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery has implications for medicine, energy efficiency, and astrobiology. Which ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to ... The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest ...

Their research reveals which Earthly 'technosignatures' would be easiest to detect from a planet across the galaxy.

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

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, as detailed in a series of papers ...