Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Texas A&M University geologist Mike Tice was on the international team of scientists that analyzed data from NASA's ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

A new study brings scientists closer to uncovering how life began on Earth.

A rock collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover may hold the strongest evidence of life beyond Earth ever found, officials said ...

Moving ice on early Earth exposed deep rocks, freed key elements, and nudged our planet toward conditions where complex life ...

The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once ...

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

A massive hydrothermal field, Kunlun, has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean, exceeding the size of the Lost City. This ...

Experiment may help explain the ‘most intriguing causal paradox in biology’ about how early life forms came together about 4 billion years ago ...

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia ...

Maternal stress in lizards slows offspring growth but unexpectedly strengthens their social bonds within families.