How animate life was formed from inanimate matter has always been a mystery, but scientists are closer to finding what may ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Scientists have made a bold leap in the search for life’s origins, offering a fresh look at how chemistry might have crossed ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into ...

Indian-origin astrophysicist Nikku Madhusudhan is leading what may be a major step forward in the search for alien life, with ...

A new study shows how the Sun and Earth's atmosphere destroy life-bearing meteoroids before they reach the planet.

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...

Oxford researchers have unearthed a cosmic surprise showing that the hydrogen needed for water was embedded in the very rocks ...

Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...

The team's work has significant implications for understanding not only the origins of life on Earth but also the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. By demonstrating that life-like ...