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

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 ...

STORY: Did the ingredients for life on Earth come from space?Scientists say two key ingredients for life on Earth: uracil and niacin were detected in rocks retrieved from asteroid RyuguThe samples ...

Two key ingredients for life on Earth were found in asteroid samples suggesting that ingredients for life might have come from space.

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

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.

Hayabusa2 ferried pristine asteroid samples to Earth in 2020. A new study reveals they contain uracil, a key life building block.

"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 ...

NASA's Cassini mission, which ended six years ago, spotted a key ingredient needed for life as we know it on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, a new study reports.

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

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft brought rock samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Now, in the analysis of the rock, scientists have found building blocks essential for life.