In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

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Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: Abiogenesis—the emergence of ...

Humans have long imagined life on Mars, but what if the red planet actually delivered life to Earth in the first place?

Zapping clay with a high-power laser is all it took to re-create the original spark of life on Earth. A bit more specifically, researchers used the Prague-based Asterix Laser System to zap clay in an ...

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, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last ...

For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth's atmosphere won't always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists predict that Earth will eventually undergo a drastic atmospheric shift—one ...

Earth is some 4.5 billion years old. When it formed from colliding rocks around a dim, young sun, it was presumably lifeless, and geologists long thought that life didn’t emerge for a billion years or ...

Chris Impey receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life ...

Surface-bound gels may have provided the structure and chemistry for life to take root on Earth, and perhaps beyond How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the ...