Sometimes the connections we make between disparate things are less than obvious. For Debra Edgerton, the connection between ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...