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

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar ...

Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...

LifeTracer, a computational framework, was developed to analyze mass spectrometry data, identifying molecular features that distinguish abiotic from biotic origins. Georgia Tech and NASA used advanced ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

David Hole was searching for gold in Australia when he discovered a 17-kilogram meteorite, estimated to be about 4.6 billion ...

Combining analytical chemistry with machine learning doubled the age of ancient rocks that can be examined for signs of ...