The question of how life emerged from nonliving matter on Earth has puzzled scientists for centuries. A groundbreaking study ...

The question of how life appeared on Earth has intrigued generations. Some researchers are now putting forward an unexpected ...

Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

"We are really trying to understand how far we can go, chemically, toward larger biological molecules and what environments are needed to form them." Researchers have created a "fingerprint" of a ...

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals ...

Polyester microdroplets, possible precursors to life, were formed from alpha-hydroxy acids (αHAs) in early Earth-like conditions even at low reaction volume, low reactant concentrations, and/or high ...