A doctoral researcher in Australia has successfully recreated cosmic dust inside a laboratory, offering a new way to study ...

A team of researchers has just demonstrated that essential molecular chains, peptides, can form spontaneously on cosmic dust grains, meaning in space. This result changes our understanding of ...

Life on Earth might be a lot less unusual than we thought, according to a new study. For decades, researchers have believed in the “hard steps” theory of life, which suggests that we needed to go ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

Scientists found organic compounds in the asteroid Bennu samples that are essential for life on Earth, but it could also contain molecules that may be necessary for forming consciousness. A theory ...

Section of a marble sample from Namibia showing the hole-like structures likely made by an unknown life form. In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, researchers discovered tube-like ...

In our high school chemistry classes we all learn about chirality, the property of organic molecules in which two chemically identical molecules can have different structures that are mirror images of ...