THE key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

NASA is delaying the launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have found complex organic molecules—key ingredients for life—around a young star ...

As Mario Livio and Jack Szostak point out in “Is Earth Exceptional? The Quest for Cosmic Life,” the experiment also created thousands of other chemicals, which in a real-world situation would have ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more fully, we might be able to harness it to heal our planet too ...

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions to study life's ingredients and the sun will have to wait a bit longer for their launch due to technical issues.

(CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH, will have to wait a bit longer to ...

(CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH, are ready to lift off to space together.

(CNN) — It’s a two-for-one cosmic deal. NASA is set to launch its newest space telescope, SPHEREx, to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way alongside a sun-focused mission ...