THE key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

Key materials for life which were previously only found on Earth were discovered circling a baby star, and now boffins think ...

The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

Although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, they account for less than 5% of the meteorites that reach Earth. To unravel this mystery, an international team of scientists launched a global ...

One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions to study life's ingredients and the sun will have to wait a bit longer for their launch due to technical issues.

"The existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary ...

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...

(CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH, will have to wait a bit longer to ...

(CNN) — It’s a two-for-one cosmic deal. NASA is set to launch its newest space telescope, SPHEREx, to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way alongside a sun-focused mission ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun ...

(CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH, are ready to lift off to space together.