They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. How life emerged on Earth is among the most significant mysteries in science. Though it remains an open question in biology, scientists have some pretty promising ...

The origin of life on Earth remains a mystery, but scientists are slowly putting together genetic puzzle pieces to learn more about how the first life on Earth lived, between 2.5 and 4 billion ...

CU Boulder geologist Brian Hynek has helped to document what may be a unique kind of ecosystem on Earth—and a possible window into the earliest stages of life on this planet 3.5 billion years ago, and ...

It’s possible that life on Earth may have started here repeatedly and around the same time at different spots on the globe, says one prominent astrobiologist.

The earliest cells were unstable chemical systems that survived by combining a handful of shaky carbon-based assemblies together, researchers say. All life on Earth is based on carbon. To create ...

'This is the first demonstration that primordial molecules, simple amino acids, spontaneously form peptides, the building blocks of life, in droplets of pure water.' ...

The first place to look for life outside Earth is within our solar system, where distances between us and potentially habitable worlds are still manageable for spacecraft flybys and even sampling ...

First Visible Aurora Spotted Over Mars: A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the NASA Rover’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with Earth..