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

"The existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary ...

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in the early solar system. The discovery could assist in the search for alien ...

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 ...

Data gathered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft has confirmed evidence of hydrogen cyanide on Enceladus—a molecule tied to the origin of life as we know it.

CHICAGO — The last key ingredient for life has been discovered on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. Phosphorus is a vital building block of life, used to construct DNA and RNA. Now, an analysis of ...

Scientists have discovered a super-Earth that orbits a red dwarf star, raising questions about the possibility of life near low-mass stars.

"Enceladus has almost all of the ingredients that you would need to support life on Earth," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ...

The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential for ...

New samples from asteroid Bennu taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft could suggest that the conditions for life are not unique to Earth, according to NASA.

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in the early solar system. The discovery could assist in the search for ...