Imagine you could watch a group of strangers act out your innermost private feelings and relationships with family members – with intense and uncanny accuracy. That’s what happened when I found myself ...

The origin of life is one big chemical Catch-22. It always has been. To get life started, you need a genetic molecule—something like RNA or DNA. That’s needed to store information about how to ...

Exomoons orbiting rogue planets could host liquid water for billions of years, offering potential habitats for life deep in ...

In a new book, astrophysicist Mario Livio describes how the existence of life on Earth can be traced back to an RNA-based “protocell.” The following is an excerpt from Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest ...

If you happened to be walking through a southern college campus 30 years ago you might have seen a man sitting on a park bench apparently wiping his face in the warmth of a spring day while gazing at ...