THE key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

New evidence has emerged suggesting that the building blocks of life were delivered to the primordial Earth from space by meteorites, a finding that could help scientists hunt for alien life.These ...

Key materials for life which were previously only found on Earth were discovered circling a baby star, and now boffins think ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions to study life's ingredients and the sun will have to wait a bit longer for their launch due to technical issues.

(CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH, will have to wait a bit longer to ...

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...

(CNN) — It’s a two-for-one cosmic deal. NASA is set to launch its newest space telescope, SPHEREx, to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way alongside a sun-focused mission ...

(CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH, are ready to lift off to space together.

New samples collected and analyzed by NASA’s Curiosity rover are pushing researchers closer than ever to finding out if Mars was once truly capable of supporting life. According to a paper ...

Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved icebergs from the Twin Glaciers are seen in 2013 off Greenland ...