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

The origin of life on Earth has always been a mystery. For many years, scientists have looked to the stars, believing that the building blocks of life that set forth evolution here on our planet ...

The early Earth was an extreme place. Asteroids pommeled the surface. Volcanoes spewed lava and carbon dioxide. The thick, ...

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

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance ...

“This is the first time that life got big,” Laflamme ... had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst of wondrous beasts ...

If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer bird song, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the ...

We'll get to that, but first, consider why Titan is getting ... which provided the building blocks for life on Earth. Griffith's team also found tantalizing deposits of organic material in some ...