In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

A breakthrough experiment, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers compelling support for ...

Evidence is mounting that the same basic chemistry that made Earth habitable is unfolding, or once unfolded, on Mars. From ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

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, ...

An ancient asteroid older than Earth itself has reignited debate over whether life began in space. NASA's Bennu discovery reveals complex organic molecules, fuelling viral claims and raising profound ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...