Earth is the only known planet to host life, a fact that has long intrigued scientists. While Venus and Mars present extreme ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Although it’s long been suggested that hydrothermal vents could’ve played a starring ...

Oxygen, essential to our existence, took nearly a billion years to appear in significant quantities on Earth, despite the ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

Life may have emerged on Mars and Earth at the same time. That's according to new evidence found in a Martian meteorite that indicates the key ingredient for life, water, appeared on Mars around 4.4 ...

New insights into a pair of colossal, continent-sized structures 1,800 miles beneath the Earth’s surface have revealed clues ...

"We are really trying to understand how far we can go, chemically, toward larger biological molecules and what environments are needed to form them." Researchers have created a "fingerprint" of a ...

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford suggests that life might have been kickstarted by constant zaps from ...

Polyester microdroplets, possible precursors to life, were formed from alpha-hydroxy acids (αHAs) in early Earth-like conditions even at low reaction volume, low reactant concentrations, and/or high ...