New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

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

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

Scientists found the first natural proof that underwater volcanoes make ammonia without biology, a reaction that may have ...

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

According to a new study the early Earth’s ancient sky may have played a much larger, proactive role in generating the chemical ingredients for life than scientists once believed.The study ...

What are the physics of life? That is more than just a philosophical question—it has practical implications for our search ...

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might ...