Japanese scientists found organic matter on a distant asteroid, supporting theories like panspermia that life’s building ...

Panspermia suggests life can travel between worlds, but new research highlights a darker implication: contamination works ...

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

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

ABSTRACT: Comet 3I/Atlas shows all the signs of being a comet escaping from a distant planetary system, probably from above the disc of the galaxy, and traversing through the inner solar system. The ...

This quiz dives into the historic and scientific journey behind the search for life in the universe—testing your knowledge of the thinkers, missions, and discoveries that shaped our cosmic curiosity.

Bennu is a primitive rock. It has remained mostly unchanged since the birth of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago. On September 24, 2023, dust and mineral samples were hauled to Earth by ...

People often doubt the transcendental vision of life as a necessary part of the universe creating itself, including the ...

Today’s new fables about extraterrestrial life are no longer like the ones that mesmerized the last century. Even though they ...

You are one of the most ancient types of land plants—older than flowers, older than grass, older than trees, older even than ...

A newly announced analysis of comet 3I/ATLAS has renewed global scientific interest in interstellar objects and their ...