The prebiotic molecules were found ... in deep space. A "soup" of molecules in a distant star-forming cloud contains compounds that are considered the essential building blocks for life ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Many many years ago philosophers thought that the Earth was as the centre of the universe. It is only relatively ...

My name is Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, and I'm a space scientist ... Maggie found reading and writing in school difficult. Nonetheless, it was a book that changed her life. On its cover was an ...

"A slightly more distant supernova could still cause considerable loss of life ... found in ancient seas and lakes, while the Ordovician event wiped out about 85% of marine species. Breaking space ...

NASA scientists are fixated on finding evidence that microbial life once flourished on the fourth rock from the Sun. So fixated, in fact, that the space agency has spent more than $5 billion ...