A recent study from researchers at the University of Toulouse has revealed a fascinating insight into the origins of life on ...

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. Various answers have been proposed, all of which remain unverified. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need ...

If you think explaining the earliest origins of man 1.9 million years ago is difficult, imagine trying to explain the development of the first microbial life on Earth, evidence for which dates to ...

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...

The team's work has significant implications for understanding not only the origins of life on Earth but also the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. By demonstrating that life-like ...

A fossil collector since childhood, Bob Hazen has come up with new scenarios for life's beginnings on earth billions of years ago. Amanda Lucidon A hilly green campus in Washington, D.C. houses ...

The prebiotic Earth was a harsh and unstable environment, characterized by intense heat, active volcanoes and little ...

Such processes mirror the early chemical transformations on Earth, linking asteroid chemistry to the potential origins of life. The discovery of organic compounds on Itokawa marks a monumental ...

Molecules that combine elements of RNA and DNA, so-called chimeric molecules, may have been an important step in the emergence of life on Earth from the primordial soup that existed billions of years ...

Pinpointing when and where Earth’s hydrogen is an essential key to understanding how life arose on the planet. Without hydrogen, there’s no water, and without water, life can’t exist here. Ironically, ...

The study potentially upends our understanding of early Earth, but the discovery of hydrogen in the meteorite doesn’t mean that life would have ... theory of the origins of water.