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