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

Back in 1976, the dual NASA Viking landers came to full stop on the Red Planet. Their life detection experimental findings still reverberate within the scientific community – fueling the on-going ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Viking landers were the first spacecraft to successfully touch down on the surface of Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP Finding ...

Leveraging one of the world’s oldest biological experiments – which began in 1929 – researchers have uncovered how a major crop, barley, was shaped by both agricultural pressures and its changing ...

Drug discovery is a long and high-risk process, with the development and approval process for each new drug costing up to $2 billion on average. Biostate AI, a start-up based in Palo Alto and Houston, ...

Finding life beyond Earth would be a major scientific discovery with significant implications for all areas of science and human thought. Yet, only one direct search for extraterrestrial life has ever ...