New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

Aslunar exploration intensifies, the potential for contamination of the Moon’s surface by spacecraft exhaust has become a ...

New research warns that spacecraft exhaust may rapidly pollute the lunar ice that might hold secrets of early life.

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered complex organic molecules, including potential precursors to life's building blocks, in the protoplanetary disc of a young star, V883 Orionis. This finding ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases ...