The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential ...

In research that could shed light on the growth and formation of complex tissue architectures, Brown University engineers ...

A complex form of carbon crucial for life on Earth has been spotted outside the solar system for the first time. Its presence helps show how the compounds needed for life could come from space. The ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain. The probe would ...

Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex form. How did this morphology emerge? A team of scientists has taken a deep dive into the evolutionary history of ...