Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

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, ...

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in the early solar system. The discovery could assist in the search for alien ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Scientists have discovered a super-Earth that orbits a red dwarf star, raising questions about the possibility of life near low-mass stars.

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Take, for example, the notion that life on Earth emerged out of something called a “primordial soup” —a fluid mix of organic compounds that contained the necessary ingredients for biology.

Lurking inside an asteroid: life’s ingredients Our solar system contains planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets — but only one world is known to harbor life.

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

New samples from asteroid Bennu taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft could suggest that the conditions for life are not unique to Earth, according to NASA.

Our research team has published a chemical analysis of those samples, providing insight into how some of the ingredients for life may have first arrived on Earth.

Ingredients to life on Earth discovered on distant asteroid for first time Data from a 5 billion-year-old asteroid suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our ...