Meteorites and comets likely carried simple amino acid chains to early Earth, which led to the creation of life, scientists confirmed in a series of experiments. It is widely thought that organisms on ...

The flowing of molten rocks through small cracks in the heart of volcanoes may have been a perfect environment to forge the building blocks of life on Earth. These chemicals—called biopolymers—are an ...

The atoms that make up life on Earth—carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and more—were forged inside stars long before our planet ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have detected the building blocks of life in ice outside the Milky Way for the first time. This significant observation was made in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our Universe could be teeming with life, according to new research.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best ...

This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Filters: vwx date:2018-07-12 08:01 Image level: 2b (Images after hardware correction and ...

Scientists have long queried how the complex molecules needed for life could have formed around the tumultuous and violent environment of the sun in its youth. A family of meteorites called ...

(CNN) — Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids ...

You are watching a long-held idea in stellar physics face serious scrutiny. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million miles from Earth. But that doesn’t mean that Bennu hasn’t all at once ...