In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, NASA has confirmed that samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain all five ...

Here's a peek at "Astrobiology #9," the space agency's free science-based comic book. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The growing ...

As part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020), the Panel on Exoplanets, Astrobiology, and the Solar System will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will define ...

In preparation for and as an input to the upcoming decadal surveys in astronomy and astrophysics and planetary science, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint an ad ...

The intriguing findings bolster the theory that asteroids seeded the early Earth with life's chemical components - a process ...

Suddenly, a mission to investigate whether Venus might be hospitable to life after all doesn't seem quite so outlandish. Astronomers announced Monday (Sept. 14) that they have identified phosphine, a ...

Josephine Walton’s research in the field of microbiology has taken her from the geothermal hot springs of Thermopolis to the ...

In a new paper just published in the journal Universe, Louis Irwin and I attempt to sum up scientists’ current understanding of life “as we know it,” and speculate how life may look and function on ...