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

A discovery made by a NASA rover has offered a clue for this mystery, new research said Wednesday, suggesting that while ...

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

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ...

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

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

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

Space ice” contains tiny crystals and is not, as previously assumed, a completely disordered material like liquid water, ...

"We believe Bennu contains part of the ingredients for life, and part of the ingredients of the formation of Earth," Heck said. Suddenly, a fragment at the bottom of a vial can have you pondering ...