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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Life is resilient. The first living things on Earth appeared as far back as 4 billion years ago, according to some scientists. At the time, our planet was still being pummeled by huge space rocks ...

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..