We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Over half of the exhaust methane from lunar spacecraft could end up contaminating areas of the moon that might otherwise ...

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

The origin of life is surely one of the most important questions in biology. How did inanimate molecules give rise to the ...

Hydrogen cyanide, a toxic chemical, may have helped spark the chemistry that led to life. When frozen, it forms crystals with ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to recognize biology may no longer be enough.

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

Methane released in exhaust could move from one lunar pole to the other in less than two lunar days, with roughly half of it eventually depositing in areas that may preserve the original chemical ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Paris summit warns about “mirror life.” Scientists call for early limits on mirror bacteria that could evade defenses and ...

Scientists are using powerful telescopes to study exoplanet atmospheres for signs of life. New missions could soon reveal ...

Researchers have uncovered thousands of preserved metabolic molecules inside fossilized bones millions of years old, offering ...