The theory that comets delivered the molecular building blocks for life on Earth is a long-standing one, since comets are ...

It’s very likely that comets carrying organic materials have crashed into Earth at some points in our distant past. The issue ...

Where did life on Earth come from?

Dark Eden, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, takes place on a rogue planet outside the Milky Way.

The study challenges a century-old theory that the celestial bodies delivered the molecular “building blocks” for life on the ...

A new study suggests that comets were highly unlikely to have delivered the organic building blocks necessary for life on ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don't know what alien life might look like?

The team operating a remote chemistry lab onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover won a Gizmodo Science Fair award for discovering compelling chemical evidence that Mars could have once supported life.

Some scientists suspect that microorganisms can hop between planets by jumping aboard debris kicked up by asteroid strikes. NASA / JPL-Caltech For decades, some of Earth’s brightest scientists have ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe — life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like ...

Where did it start? How did it grow complex? Why did it get big? Three moments in Earth’s early history when evolution ...