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

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, ...

Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could impact our search for alien life.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Scientists have discovered a super-Earth that orbits a red dwarf star, raising questions about the possibility of life near low-mass stars.

Lurking inside an asteroid: life’s ingredients Our solar system contains planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets — but only one world is known to harbor life.

Take, for example, the notion that life on Earth emerged out of something called a “primordial soup” —a fluid mix of organic compounds that contained the necessary ingredients for biology.

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...

New samples from asteroid Bennu taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft could suggest that the conditions for life are not unique to Earth, according to NASA.

Our research team has published a chemical analysis of those samples, providing insight into how some of the ingredients for life may have first arrived on Earth.

Ingredients to life on Earth discovered on distant asteroid for first time Data from a 5 billion-year-old asteroid suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our ...