The team found that whale feces contained significant amounts of iron, meaning that whales fertilize the ocean as they feed and excrete waste.
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...
Sometimes the connections we make between disparate things are less than obvious. For Debra Edgerton, the connection between ...
Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...
A team of researchers in Germany have proposed a new method for searching for life on alien worlds, which they believe could ...
An asteroid strike could cool the planet's climate, harm crops, and disrupt food supply, but it may also increase plankton ...
Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...
“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.