A small, icy visitor from beyond the solar system is giving scientists an unusually close look at the chemistry that may help ...

A sleep-inducing molecule humans use to make proteins was found, along with other amino acids, on an asteroid named Bennu.

The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be seeding the worlds of this solar system with the early stages of life, new ...

Life on Earth may have begun with a gift from a comet. Its existence was once threatened by an asteroid. Its future may ...

Fresh ALMA observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS detected unusually high methanol and hydrogen-cyanide signals, ...

Indeed, Earth is not only the planet that contains life but in the cosmos there may be more. This brings the theory of ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be alien technology sent to seed life on Earth, ...

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

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 ...

Uncover the mind-blowing concept of panspermia—did life on Earth originate from outer space? Explore lithopanspermia's rock-hopping journey, radiopanspermia's interstellar dust ride, and directed ...

The astronomer Carl Sagan once said that the question of the nature of life on Earth and the question of whether life can be found beyond Earth are two sides of the same question. In the case of ...

We often wonder whether there are aliens on other planets but what if we ourselves are aliens on the planet we call home? Panspermia, the “controversial” theory that life “began elsewhere in space” ...