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 ...

Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...

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

Slain cattle stripped of certain organs with surgical precision and found in pastures with no trace of blood or evidence have ...

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

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

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

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

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

Recent findings indicate that the chirality of molecules, critical to life's structure, might not have been as fixed in early ...

One of the more popular explanations for everything these days, like a masterpiece pencil portrait that resembles a ...