The exoplanet K2-18b could harbor a massive ocean, but scientists will need to study the planet more to see if it’s really ...

Kendall Square has become a hub of biotech innovation and a popular location for up and coming life sciences firms. Now, a ...

Each time biosignatures are found, biologists confront the ambiguous distinction between life and non-life, and the ...

BEIJING -- A mega science plan was launched Thursday in Beijing's Huairou Science City, aimed at advancing research in life ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

The Webb Space Telescope picked up traces of dimethyl sulfide on planet K2-18b. On Earth, the molecule comes from microbes ...

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

Scientists from the Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique in France and from Hawai’i have discovered that it is ...

Prebiotic molecules central to life's earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into ...