Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from planetesimals in the early solar system, new research suggests.

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Take, for example, the notion that life on Earth emerged out of something called a “primordial soup” —a fluid mix of organic compounds that contained the necessary ingredients for biology.

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in the early solar system. The discovery could assist in the search for ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do that, scientists need untouched samples—material that hasn’t been ...