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

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...

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

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do that, scientists need untouched samples—material that hasn’t been ...

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

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has detected methanol isotopes around a nearby star, which could help explain why the ingredients for life are present on Earth.

"Matthew Evans has had a fascinating life, originally the restaurant critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, he became a chef, ...

NASA is focused on the moon as a crucial stepping stone for future deep space exploration. Earth's moon is a 4.5-billion-year ...