A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

While the Cambrian Explosion kickstarted complex life in a major way some 530 million years, the true timeline of life on ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Curiosity rover cracked open a Martian rock, revealing a sight never before seen on Mars - a dazzling display of yellow ...

The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...

Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...