Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from planetesimals in the early solar system, new research suggests.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Take, for example, the notion that life on Earth emerged out of something called a “primordial soup” —a fluid mix of organic compounds that contained the necessary ingredients for biology.

Lurking inside an asteroid: life’s ingredients Our solar system contains planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets — but only one world is known to harbor life.

The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in the early solar system. The discovery could assist in the search for ...