A NASA spacecraft has discovered organic chemicals on 3I/ATLAS, which Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims raises the possibility that the comet is an “interstellar gardener” seeding the universe with ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab ...

When Bad Bunny walked onto the Super Bowl LX halftime stage Sunday night, Discover Puerto Rico was watching closely — not ...

The novel organic molecule AzoBiPy demonstrates exceptional stability and energy storage capacity, revolutionizing flow battery technology for renewable energy.

Known non-biological sources, from meteorites to surface chemistry, fall short of accounting for organic compounds detected ...

With insect farming projected to produce millions of tons of insects in the coming years, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers offer evidence that the insect farming byproduct called “ ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is attempting one of the rarest kinds of experiments ever tried on Mars, a painstaking chemical test that uses a limited supply of liquid reagents to hunt for traces of complex ...

A comprehensive assessment of the potential of harvested insects could lead to a low-cost, readily available nutrient source ...

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.