The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

THE key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

Key materials for life which were previously only found on Earth were discovered circling a baby star, and now boffins think ...

Although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, they account for less than 5% of the meteorites that reach Earth. To unravel this mystery, an international team of scientists launched a global ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do that, scientists need untouched samples—material that hasn’t been ...

Complex organic molecules (COM) are those that contain six or more atoms, one or more of which must be carbon. Amino acids ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Why we, so far, only see life on Earth and not elsewhere, that’s the truly tantalizing question.” For more information on the OSIRIS-REx mission, visit this link. More from 6 News: ...

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.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start. "That's ...

Combining the ingredients of life with an environment of sodium-rich salt water, or brines, “that’s really the pathway to life,” said Tim McCoy, the National Museum of Natural History's ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start. "That's ...