In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...
Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...
A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...
New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...
About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice bulldozers" that pulverized our planet's crust and may have contributed to ...
A breakthrough experiment, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers compelling support for ...
New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...
How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...
Evidence is mounting that the same basic chemistry that made Earth habitable is unfolding, or once unfolded, on Mars. From ...
Between a rock and a green place: Michelle Gehringer studies fossilized life on early Earth to learn more about the evolution of (oxygenic) photosynthesis - the process that makes the oxygen we breath ...
Introduction : The coherence of history / Stephen Jay Gould -- The planetary setting of prebiotic evolution / Sherwood Chang -- Early environments : constraints and opportunities for early evolution / ...