Researchers have taken a significant step in uncovering how life began on Earth, introducing a fresh perspective on the complex journey from chemistry to biology. The work centers on artificial ...

For decades, scientists have theorized that volcanic lightning on an early Earth played a crucial role in kickstarting life on the planet by breaking molecules into useful, biological components. A ...

Complex life may have started its rise in Earth’s oxygen-free oceans nearly a billion years earlier than anyone imagined.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back pristine pieces of the asteroid Bennu in 2023—and these tiny grains are turning out to ...

Maybe the first life on Earth was part of an 'RNA world.' Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library via Getty Images How life on Earth started has puzzled scientists for a long time. And it still does.

Scientists propose a new “prebiotic gel-first” framework that suggests life on Earth may have begun in sticky, surface-bound ...

The history of life on Earth began long after the planet's formation 4.6 billion years ago. During the earliest stage of ...

Understanding how life started remains a major challenge for science. At a European Science Foundation (ESF) and COST ‘Frontiers of Science’ conference in Sicily in October, scientists discussed two ...

Scientists drilled into the seafloor to look billions of years into the planet's past. Some scientists think hydrothermal vents may have given rise to life on Earth. And the signals to life's origins ...