Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists ...

Thomas Beatty describes the search for life on other planets and the role of telescopes. Thomas Beatty, assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

increasing the odds life could have formed on other planets and moons, according to a NASA statement. In Graphics: How Bennu samples were retrieved. “We now know from Bennu that the raw ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link NASA probed an asteroid and found an ancient repository of ingredients for life. The findings, published in two papers in the journals Nature ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

While the findings do not show, in and of themselves, life on other planets or elsewhere in the universe, it does show that the chemical components were kicking around in space well before life took ...

A "super-Earth" planet found outside ... biosignatures indicating potential life" on planets far away from our own. "I'm now very enthusiastic to hear what other scientists can tell us about ...

A nearby star that may host a planet or ... to would-be life. And red dwarf stars like Wolf 359 are known to produce a lot of radiation — often in the form of flares and other lash-outs.

By Carl Zimmer Our solar system contains planets, dwarf planets ... from space might have delivered amino acids and other ingredients for life to early Earth. Chemical reactions might have ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know ...

Come visit the wild wild planet of retro Italian genre films with the seminal documentary Life As A B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli, written and directed by Fabrizio Laurenti and Niccolo Vivarelli. It is the ...