Life on our planet emerged quickly or, at least, it did so on a geological timescale. Fossils reveal that micro-life existed ...

For more than a century, the idea that life might have arrived on our planet from elsewhere in the cosmos sat at the fringes ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests could have quickly formed in the presence of compounds called borates. When ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

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For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

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