New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery about how dust forms in some of the ...

Two papers published at the end of January in Nature and Nature Astronomy provide evidence about the origin of life. The analyses and inferences from their results affect the disciplines of biology, ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A recent discovery indicates that the chemical building blocks necessary for life to form on Earth were actually "extraterrestrial in origin," according to scientists. A pair of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a young star in a neighboring galaxy — including the first-ever detection of ...

A groundbreaking discovery, made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), suggests that the chemical precursors to life may be far more widespread in the cosmos than previously thought.

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Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases ...