Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere. How did life first take shape? A group of scientists from Japan, Malaysia, ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

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

The atmosphere may have blanketed the Earth with molecules containing sulfur billions of years ago. In A Nutshell Laboratory ...

Complex life began to develop earlier, and over a longer span of time, than previously believed, a new study has revealed.

The film captures his electrifying early years in vivid detail, though like Murphy himself it grows less satisfying as he loses his edge. In “Being Eddie,” the engaging if also relentlessly upbeat and ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Life has a remarkable knack for persisting even in the most unlikely of environments. A new study finds lipid biomarkers in a extremely alkaline ...

A new documentary released by the Vatican on Pope Leo XIV's early life is more than just a film about the life of the new pope, but the story of an ordinary person who answered a calling to serve the ...

A new documentary released by the Vatican on Pope Leo XIV's early life is more than just a film about the life of the new pope, but the story of an ordinary person who answered a calling to serve the ...

The Vatican Dicastery for Communication released the documentary "Leo from Chicago," which chronicles the pope's humble beginnings in Dolton, Ill., as well as his early years as an Augustinian.