Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their ...

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the ...

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

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

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.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and the Centro de Astrobiología, part of ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

October is Space Month. At Duke University, space research is more than just science — it's a bold journey across disciplines. This is the third in a series of stories featuring innovators, dreamers, ...

"The universe is a pretty big place. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space," goes a line from the 1997 film "Contact." In the movie, Jodie Foster plays Dr. Ellie Arroway, a radio ...