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.
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 ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia collided with the young Earth. How the collision unfolded and what exactly ...