The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

The key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

THE key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

A new study suggests that hot springs in Ladakh may provide insights into the origins of life on Earth and potentially Mars.

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large scale," University of California, Irvine researcher and team leader Te Han ...

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

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

Although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, they account for less than 5% of the meteorites that reach Earth. To unravel this mystery, an international team of scientists launched a global ...

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

Key materials for life which were previously only found on Earth were discovered circling a baby star, and now boffins think ...

Michele Dougherty, the UK's first female Astronomer Royal, believes life beyond Earth is likely, citing hidden oceans on moons like Enceladus and Ganymede.

Astronomers have found key organic molecules in a young star’s disk, V883 Orionis, suggesting that the origin of life in deep space.