Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

A new study suggests a meteorite the size of not one, but FOUR Mt. Everests may have aided the beginning of life on Earth. The mammoth S2 meteorite, discovered in 2014, is believed to have caused a ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a tantalizing venue for humankind’s search for life beyond Earth. Mars today ...

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Wikipedia’s “Timeline of the Far Future” is one of my favorite webpages from the internet’s pre-slop era. A Londoner named Nick Webb created it on the morning of ...

Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it. Phosphorus is the structural backbone of the phosphate nucleotides in DNA and RNA, ...

Alien life might look unlike anything we've ever seen on Earth. Trying to find evidence of these unknown organisms will require some creativity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...