For most of a decade, Illinois led the nation in annual exonerations. Yet it offers little in terms of a system to help those ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Biological invasion has become one of the most significant drivers of global ecological disruption, causing billions of dollars in ...

When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...

The long, quiet search for radio whispers from Comet 3I/ATLAS has finally paid off, and the result is as dramatic as the hype ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...