Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

The origin of the first living molecules on our planet has long been debated. However, recent experiments are revealing new ...

The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

A breakthrough experiment, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers compelling support for ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin Questions in the natural sciences. Recently, China officially launched its Mars ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...