Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Scientists have made a bold leap in the search for life’s origins, offering a fresh look at how chemistry might have crossed ...

All that said, the findings can’t confirm the terrestrial life theory beyond a doubt. There’s still a chance hydrogen-heavy ...

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially ... we are really young that might affect our entire life," he says "It's the same thing for planets.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

“It’s recognized that an energetic catalyst was almost certainly required to facilitate some of the reactions on early Earth that led to the origin of life,” said astrobiologist and ...

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