Fifty years ago, scientists recovered samples of potential extraterrestrial life, but may have unintentionally destroyed it ...

New research from Portland State University focused on identifying signs of life—biosignatures—in extreme environments here ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

Why Is Life Possible on Earth but Not on Other Planets ... Even stepping beyond our Solar System to explore exoplanets (planets outside our Solar System) doesn’t improve our chances.

Life was seeded by comets or meteors. Some scientists think that some of the molecules important to life may be produced outside the Earth. Instead, they suggest that these ingredients came from ...

“Arguments that prebiotic organics could most easily form in brines make them a prime target to find existing microbial life outside Earth.” At the media telecon, Nature study co-authors Jason Dworkin ...

Space Miso has a more nutty flavor because of several factors in space influencing the growth of microbes during fermentation ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Click on the first column in each table row to see class details. Nature and history of scientific inquiry into life outside the Earth. Definitions of life. Habitability of planets and moons in our ...