Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international ...

For more than a decade, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been crawling across the dusty, windswept plains of Mars, drilling into rocks and, in the process, revealing the Red Planet’s geological history. Now ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

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Scientists have found new evidence that Jupiter’s largest moons may have received the chemical building blocks of life at the moment they formed. The discovery suggests that worlds like Europa, ...

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As space agencies prepare to bring home pieces of the Martian system, the hope of finding life elsewhere in the universe feels closer than ever. NASA’s Mars Sample Return plan and the Martian Moons ...

Organic chemicals, primarily composed of carbon and hydrogen, underly all of life. They’re also widespread in the Universe, so they can’t be taken as a clear signature of the presence of life. That ...