Jupiter’s Galilean moons, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and Io, have long been subjects of intense scientific scrutiny, ...

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu in 2023, scientists discovered something extraordinary: ...

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

The universe might have far more amino acids lying around than we realized, which gives life itself far more chances to begin.

In a star system far, far away—well, about 1,300 light-years from here—a young star just spilled the chemical tea on the origins of life. V883 Orionis, a fiery infant star surrounded by a swirling ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

If there's life elsewhere in the universe, why can't we find it? The Fermi Paradox is called a paradox precisely because it's tough to reconcile the optimism of the Drake Equation with the deafening ...

A graphical representation of glycine on a surface in the interstellar medium bombarded by cosmic rays to produce peptides, the building block of proteins. Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus ...