The dna inside our cells almost exclusively twists in one direction, but the reason for this might be out of this world!

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, ...

The 9,000-square-foot lounge located in Terminal 5 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) is steeped in ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a coffee cup.

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells ...

New 'cassette tape' made of DNA has the capacity to store 36 petabytes of data, which could change the future of digital ...

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

The family has raised more than $100,000 so far and taken out loans to build an outdoor protected space at their Phillip Bay ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

The domestic cat has a long, complex and uncertain history. Ancient DNA is making its origin story clearer.