Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

Each time biosignatures are found, biologists confront the ambiguous distinction between life and non-life, and the ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed on the Red Planet.

Part of the challenge when it comes to researching the existence of alien life is knowing where to look. Until relatively recently, the focus for Nasa’s search for life was Mars, but that began to ...

The organic compounds, which include decane ... determine whether life ever existed anywhere beyond our planet. Curiosity landed in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. More than 12 years later ...

A new study explores the possibility of microbial life in Titan's deep ocean—and why it may be harder to find than we think.

Fifty years ago, scientists recovered samples of potential extraterrestrial life, but may have unintentionally destroyed it ...