A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

Scientists may have discovered a reaction that provides the “missing link” to help explain how early life formed on Earth about 4 billion years ago. All living things contain ribonucleic acid, ...

Two separate laboratory breakthroughs have produced RNA molecules that can build copies of themselves or assemble functional structures without any help from proteins or DNA. These results offer the ...

Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Amino acids from asteroid Bennu suggest that some of life’s building blocks formed in icy conditions in the early solar system.

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The experts can use these findings in their search for life on exoplanets with similar chemical profiles.

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

The question of when life began on Earth is as old as human culture. “It’s one of these fundamental human questions: When did life appear on Earth?” said Professor Martin Whitehouse of the Swedish ...