The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

Scientists are sharpening their forecasts for how long Earth can remain a comfortable home for complex organisms, and the ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after the space agency highlighted how scientists found sugars essential for life ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

Recently, astrophysicist Avi Loeb claimed that 3I/ATLAS boasts a “heartbeat”-like pulse that could provide evidence of the ...

According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.