A collaborative research team has made significant progress in studying the abiotic synthesis and stability of biomolecules ...

A study suggests ancient hot springs, like Yellowstone's, may have supported reactions crucial for the birth of life on our ...

Plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought—and may be a big ...

Large-scale disruptions to life may ultimately increase ecological complexity over geologic timescales, though the risk of ...

Recent findings indicate that the chirality of molecules, critical to life's structure, might not have been as fixed in early ...

Scientists have been searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life for decades. So, where are all the aliens? Here are 12 ...

European Space Agency astronaut Rosemary Coogan has just started a new phase in her training, which will have her spend six ...

The Moon also offers a handy site for an offworld seed repository of Earth’s plant life, much like the Svalbard Global Seed ...

NASA's latest findings reveal that RNA's role in life's preference for left-handed proteins may be less about chemical bias ...

Orbital manufacturing. Private space stations. Moon buggies. Exploring Mars. All are there, alongside the more humdrum (if more reliably profitable) businesses of building and servicing satellites.

There’s more than one circumstance in which this simple molecule could have done a job life subsequently found a way to do ...