The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet

Among other goals, James Webb will search the atmospheres of alien planets for what scientists call "biosignatures" -- the presence of life.

Thousands of alien worlds are known to orbit stars beyond our solar system. And many more worlds, possibly harboring life.

A NASA sounding rocket will observe a nearby star to learn how starlight affects the atmospheres of exoplanets in the hunt for life.

While analyzing some of the world’s oldest coloured gemstones, researchers discovered carbon residue that was once ancient life.

Photosynthesis could occur in Venus' clouds with the middle and lower clouds receiving solar energy similar to the Earth's surface.

A rogue planet is an interstellar object of planetary mass without a host planetary system and could be fertile nurseries for life.

Research teams that studied an ancient supervolcano in Indonesia found such volcanoes remain active and hazardous for thousands of years

When we search for life out there in the galaxy, we base our efforts on what we know. So far, we know only one planet that has yielded life.

The history of life on Earth has often been likened to a four-billion-year-old torch relay. One flame, lit at the beginning of the chain.

The presence or absence of a shield matters because magnetic shields protect astronomical bodies from harmful solar radiation.

According to new research, simple animal species’ may have existed on Earth far longer than humans anticipated, approx 890 million years

Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that changes in Earth's orbit may have allowed complex life to emerge and thrive

Europa is the sixth nearest moon to Jupiter and is roughly the same size as our own. Thanks to data retrieved by the Galileo space probe

Left hands and right hands are almost perfect mirror images of each other. But whatever way they are twisted and turned...

Using years of data collected from ice-covered habitats all over the world, a Montana State University team has discovered new insights...