LifeTracer uses machine learning to spot subtle molecular patterns that separate biological chemistry from nonliving organics ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars, identifying a peculiar rock that may be an iron-nickel meteorite. This intriguing find not only highlights the capabilities of ...

In a first for the Perseverance rover, it appears to have found an iron-nickel meteorite near the Jezero Crater.

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 ...

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...

A machine learning framework can distinguish molecules made by biological processes from those formed through non-biological processes and could be used to analyze samples returned by current and ...

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 ...

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them.