HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

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

We carried out four surveys regarding the likely existence of basic, complex and intelligent extraterrestrial life ...

NASA's latest asteroid sample from Bennu reveals amino acids and nucleobases, essential for life, sparking questions about ...

Are we alone in the Universe ... conducive to the appearance of life, during the planet's revolution around the star. Many years of observations Detecting this super-Earth was not easy and ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...

This essential function may have driven the early stages of life on Earth. Water moving through volcanic rock pores, dried by gas, likely created ideal conditions for RNA synthesis, explaining how ...

We are often told that we might discover it any time now. Finding life beyond Earth is “only a matter of time,” we were told in September 2023. “We are close” was a headline from September ...