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 ...

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that ...

New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

But the origins of life on our planet remains one of the great mysteries of science. Now, a mission by NASA to collect a piece of ancient asteroid and bring it back to Earth has revealed that the ...

Scientists explore Lost City, in the Atlantic, where chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents could explain the origin of ...

The team selected five of the more universally agreed-upon "hard steps:" the origin of life, the evolution of eukaryotes ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the cond ...

This is precisely when the team wanted to search for the origins of water ... when the stage was set for life to begin." Since the chemical composition of the Earth rocks they studied matches ...