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

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A discovery ...

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

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

What can the climate history of Mars teach scientists about whether the Red Planet once had the ingredients for life as we ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? - Ultimately ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected a young star system, HD 100453, awash in alcohol, approximately 330 light-years away. This pr ...

Their presence means that icy materials floating in space might survive even during the wild, chaotic process of planet formation. What could it mean for life beyond Earth?

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new ...