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

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

On a scorching summer afternoon at Grootfontein, Namibia, a curious paradox greets every visitor to the Hoba meteorite.Here lies the largest known intact meteorite on Earth, an 80 tonne iron mass ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.

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

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

We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them. The oldest sample they identified as biological was 3.3bn years old—twice ...

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