NASA has discovered signs of life on Mars in the form of organic carbon, sulfur, rust, and phosphorous in a canyon, and new ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

A new study brings scientists closer to uncovering how life began on Earth.

The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once ...

Oxytocin, the "love hormone," drives newborn behavior to manage separation stress and seek reunion, uncovering how early ...

The most enthralling rock yet found on Mars—a speckled hunk of mudstone that just may contain evidence of ancient alien ...

The Perseverance Rover has samples of potential ancient life on the planet. The challenge is getting them back to Earth.

Moving ice on early Earth exposed deep rocks, freed key elements, and nudged our planet toward conditions where complex life ...

Experiment may help explain the ‘most intriguing causal paradox in biology’ about how early life forms came together about 4 billion years ago ...

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

Texas A&M University geologist Mike Tice was on the international team of scientists that analyzed data from NASA's ...