Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

The origin of the first living molecules on our planet has long been debated. However, recent experiments are revealing new ...

A breakthrough experiment, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers compelling support for ...

As lunar missions increase, scientists warn that spacecraft exhaust may contaminate sensitive regions of the moon faster than ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

Over half of the exhaust methane from lunar spacecraft could end up contaminating areas of the moon that might otherwise ...

When and where did life on Earth begin? What ingredients does the recipe for life require? Is there life out there beyond the stars, and if so, did it arise in the same way? Or are we alone in the ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...