Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

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, ...

According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...

How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany suggest that the answer ...

Scientists found the first natural proof that underwater volcanoes make ammonia without biology, a reaction that may have ...

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

New evidence from rocks, molecules and machine learning is forcing scientists to redraw the opening chapters of Earth’s story ...

A story is something that is so powerful. All of our history was passed down through stories. We call it ‘Aipoomah’sin;’ a ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

NATIONWIDE — NASA announced on Wednesday that its Perseverance Mars rover may have found signs of ancient microbial life on the red planet. During a teleconference on Wednesday morning, acting NASA ...