The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

New evidence has emerged suggesting that the building blocks of life were delivered to the primordial Earth from space by ...

Scientists suggest microlightning in water droplets could have sparked the creation of Earth's earliest organic molecules. The new research, published in Science Advances, builds upon the landmark ...

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth ...