A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

When scientists look to the skies for clues about life's origins, water is one of the first things they seek. Life, as it's understood today, requires water, making its cosmic origins a significant ...

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.

Life on Earth might be a lot less unusual than we thought, according to a new study. For decades, researchers have believed in the “hard steps” theory of life, which suggests that we needed to go ...

Scientists discovered a new form of life that stands 26 feet tall in what's been described as a huge breakthrough.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

Scientists found organic compounds in the asteroid Bennu samples that are essential for life on Earth, but it could also contain molecules that may be necessary for forming consciousness. A theory ...

In our high school chemistry classes we all learn about chirality, the property of organic molecules in which two chemically identical molecules can have different structures that are mirror images of ...