"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...
Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...
A recent discovery made by scientists working with a sample of rock from outer space highlights one of the huge challenges ...
It's a question that has intrigued researchers and enthusiasts for decades. The latest study conducted on a sample from ...
But a team of researchers, led by Matthew Genge of Imperial College London, have since squashed that theory - at least in ...
Imagine that, for billions of years, you're a grain of material unbothered on asteroid Ryugu. All of a sudden, a spacecraft ...
We've known for a while that complex chemistry occurs in space. Organic molecules have been detected in cold molecular clouds ...
Samples taken from the space-returned piece of asteroid Ryugu were collected and prepared under strict anti-contamination ...
A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...
A Ryugu asteroid sample has been found contaminated by terrestrial microbes, raising questions about planetary protection.
Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust its posture and stick its landing even in low-gravity ...
Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in ...