Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our Universe could be teeming with life, according to new research.

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have detected the building blocks of life in ice outside the Milky Way for the first time. This significant observation was made in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our universe could be teeming with life, according to new research.

The asteroid, named Bennu, contains sugars necessary for the development of life as well as a “gum-like” substance never before found on any space rock Samples of Bennu were first delivered to earth ...