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

Scientists know that the ingredients necessary to form life appeared on Earth early in its history, but they're still trying to figure out exactly how that happened. A new study suggests that ...

March 21 (Reuters) - Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the ...

Scientists still debate the origins of Earth's life-sustaining elements. BlackJack3D/E+ via Getty Images For many years, scientists have predicted that many of the elements that are crucial ...

Detecting Life Beyond Earth. In this video and quiz, see how scientists sniff out signs of life on distant planets, then try it yourself. Detecting Life on Other Planets. In this video from NOVA ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

How did life on Earth begin, and were the ingredients for life already on Earth or were they brought here from space? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a ...

For many years, scientists have predicted that many of the elements that are crucial ingredients for life, like sulfur and nitrogen, first came to Earth when asteroid-type objects carrying them ...

There are a few key ingredients that scientists often agree are needed for life to exist — but much debate remains as to what limits there actually might be on life. Even Earth hosts some ...

The super-Earth’s orbit path as it skims through the habitable zone of Ross 508. ... That means there could be key ingredients for life that may survive in the atmosphere.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, ... Bennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life.