In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

On early Earth, the reaction could have taken place ... reacted with one another and ultimately led to the origin of life. A better understanding of how these components formed and fused together ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — Everything has a beginning, and a new study finds that the start of life on Earth arrived in the ...

could explain the origin of life on Earth. Watch the full documentary Science’s Biggest Mysteries on BBC Select. From the Mouse Bunker to the Embassy of Czechoslovakia, the Cold War buildings ...

In fact, this contamination by life is probably the normal beginning of life on any planet, including the earth. “Space travelers,” says Gold, “may have visited the earth a billion years ago ...

A groundbreaking new study of microbes underground is challenging everything we thought we knew about extreme environments.

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...