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A University of Arizona-led study shines a spotlight on sulfur, a chemical element that, while all familiar, has proved surprisingly resistant to scientific efforts in probing its role in the origin of life.

The report highlights discussions about advancements in measurement techniques and technology needed for future missions designed to search for signs of life in the Solar System.

What do margaritas, vinegar, and ant stings have in common? They contain chemical ingredients that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified surrounding two young protostars known as IRAS 2A and IRAS 23385.

AABC is proud to award its first Mensch Prize in Astrobiology for graduate student Lilia Koelemay and undergraduate student Garret Wilson. This prestigious award includes a certificate and a cash prize of $1,000 for outstanding contributions to the field of astrobiology.

If the dominant species on an ocean world builds a technological civilization of some sort, would they be able to escape their ocean home and explore space?

Given their remarkable abilities to survive situations that would kill pretty much any other animal, could they have contaminated the moon? Worse, might they be able to reproduce and colonize it?

While prebiotic chemicals such as sugars and amino acids are known to appear in asteroids and comets, a new study shows that cosmic dust also seeded young Earth.

A team of researchers has examined the Winchcombe meteorite and demonstrated the existence in it of nitrogen compounds without applying any chemical treatment and by using a new type of detector design.

The search for life beyond Earth fascinates many and inspires big questions: Are we truly alone in the universe? Is our Earth unique? Is it possible that life beyond Earth may actually be far from little green aliens and much closer to the microbial life with which we share our planet?

A team of astrophysicists has created the first-ever catalog of small, Earth-like planets with Jupiter-like siblings, a critical component in the search for life elsewhere in our universe.