Caroline Freissient, the lead study author and research scientist at CNRS said: "Our study proves ... the first evidence that ...

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

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

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

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 building blocks for life are thought have been brought to Earth by asteroids that bombarded our planet long ago. But the ...

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 ...

So, if life exists on Titan, it might not resemble the thriving, teeming ecosystems we know. Instead, think of isolated oases — tiny, slow-growing communities, perhaps tucked away in warmer pockets, ...