Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

The significance of this discovery lies in its potential to bridge the gap between simple molecular structures and the ...

The key to unlocking the secrets of distant planets starts right here on Earth. Researchers at Tohoku University, the ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

How did life start on Earth? The answer is a big scientific mystery scientists are actively investigating. After talking with ...

Scientists have long wondered how the first cell membranes formed from the primordial soup—a new study offers up a recipe.

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.

It makes sense the genre is the go-to place for all kinds of stories as our reality slowly resembles something you’d see in a ...

This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged.