For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

Life on our planet emerged quickly or, at least, it did so on a geological timescale. Fossils reveal that micro-life existed ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...

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.

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer space. This idea suggests that prebiotic molecules—the building blocks of ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues to how life developed in our neck of the cosmos, including the sugars ...