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

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The last universal common ancestor is the single life form that branched into ...

Scientists believe we may be closer to uncovering how life started on Earth. A discovery from The Scripps Research Institute in California may offer more insight than ever before, with claims a ...

How unlikely was the moment when life first began on Earth? That remains one of the greatest mysteries about the origins of human existence. We still don't know how life arose, but it may well ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...