Was alien life in "hot water" on Mars billions of years ago? New evidence from the Martian meteorite "Black Beauty" suggests ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

Thousands of cattle have been killed and carefully harvested for their sex organs for at least half a century, leaving no ...

Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in ...

Since the first modern SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) studies tried to detect alien transmissions in the ...

We've known for a while that complex chemistry occurs in space. Organic molecules have been detected in cold molecular clouds, and we have even found sugars and amino acids, the so-called 'building ...

A recent discovery made by scientists working with a sample of rock from outer space highlights one of the huge challenges ...

When scientists discovered water and a chemical compound common in RNA on a rock from the asteroid Ryugu, astronomy fans and ...

underscoring just how hard it is to probe off-Earth samples for evidence of extraterrestrial life. "The presence of terrestrial microorganism within a sample of Ryugu underlines that ...

HOPES of finding traces of alien life in the universe have been scuppered yet again. And this time on asteroid Ryugu, a space ...

When scientists discovered water and a chemical compound common in RNA on a rock from the asteroid Ryugu, astronomy fans and laypeople alike held their collective breath for the chance of ...