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

Venus may be a hellscape by our standards, but there’s a chance that some forms of life could evolve there. A new MIT study has now found that the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in ...

Europa, a moon of Jupiter, and Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, have evidence of oceans beneath their ice crusts. A NASA experiment suggests that if these oceans support life, signatures of that life in ...

This educational film explores acid-base indicators and their color changes in response to acidity. It demonstrates how substances like tea, red cabbage, and litmus paper react when acids are added, ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a previously overlooked mediator in the body's response to life-threatening infections: hippuric acid, a metabolite produced when gut bacteria break ...