NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

One is that life's building blocks were delivered on or in meteorites. The other is that those building blocks came together spontaneously via geochemistry in our planet's early environment.

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

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

"So this, of course, increases the odds that life could have formed on other planets," she said. A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock ...

So far, they are yet to find all of them in one place; the planet LHS 1140 b has been considered the “best place to look for life beyond the Solar System” because it met more than any other ...

Their mission could "change the way we look at the possibility of life on other planets too," the researchers ... "But these [new] experiments will provide the proof." This might seem a niche ...

These extreme temperatures, among other factors, make life as we know it impossible on Mercury. "The extreme weather conditions do not allow for the planet to have liquid water, which is the basis ...