We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

GREENBELT, Md. -- A team of international scientists says they've found sugars in meteorites that could be essential to the creation of life. The team, which included scientists from NASA and other ...

Astrobiology is evolving from a niche science into a global, interdisciplinary effort to understand life’s origins and where it might exist beyond Earth. New discoveries, from extraterrestrial organic ...

This NASA image shows the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, circled in the center, as seen by the L’LORRI black-and-white imager on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft ...

Extraterrestrial life could betray itself not in the molecules themselves, but in their arrangement. A recent study shows that living systems leave distinctive statistical patterns in their organic ...