Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

Kuan-Yu Lin, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Delaware, was a recent participant on the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 399: Building ...

Some chemical traces of life, called biological markers, have been found in rocks up to 3.8 billion years old, leading scientists to estimate that life originated about 4 billion years ago.

Sept. 29, 2011 — -- There is no question in all of science that is more perplexing, and more difficult to answer, than this simple query: How did life on Earth begin?It happened so long ago ...

Miracle year . Globally, 1971 was something of a banner year for research into the origin of life. In addition to Gánti’s underdog work, science put forward two other important theoretical models.

Emily Singer: What have been the biggest accomplishments of researchers seeking to understand life’s origins?What questions remain to be solved? David Deamer: We have really made progress since ...

Researchers at the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have observed the formation of nanocavities in montmorillonite clay ...

Origins of life: new evidence first ... This doesn’t prove life started in the vents, but it does renew the possibility that it did. It’s also relevant to the search for life on other planets.

In this week's Short Wave roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber talk about the origins of life on Earth, what bird brains illuminate about human speech and how ADHD is mischaracterized on TikTok.

A historical epic chronicling the life of America's first president will hit theaters next Independence Day, Angel Studios ...

NASA has collected samples from Bennu — a 4.5 billion-year-old “near-Earth” asteroid — that could show “the building blocks of life” here.