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Study finds Earth's ancient atmosphere may have produced essential sulfur biomolecules like cysteine, challenging theories on ...

The finding supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the necessary components for life to begin on Earth and ...

New data reveal interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is a 'pristine' object rich in alien metals and carbon. Scientists uncover its ...

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet ...

Asteroid Bennu was already a time capsule from the dawn of the Solar System, but the first detailed look at its returned ...

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For the first time in an extraterrestrial sample, scientists detected ribose, which is a five-carbon sugar vital for RNA, and glucose, the six-carbon sugar that powers cells on Earth.