How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany suggest that the answer ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...

Scientists have made a bold leap in the search for life’s origins, offering a fresh look at how chemistry might have crossed over into biology. At the center of this progress are coacervate ...

Two perplexing structures deep inside Earth might be ancient remnants of our early planet, and they could hold clues about ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the researcher points to panspermia, a theory that life or the ingredients for life came ...

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