All life on Earth comes from one single ancestor. And it's so much older than we thought. All life on Earth can be traced ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere may be preserved in the Moon's soil, offering a long-term record of Earth’s atmospheric ...

The investigation suggests that LUCA lived on Earth 4.2 billion years ago and had an immune system that could fight off ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...

A major study shows complex cells evolved gradually in an oxygen-poor world, challenging long-held assumptions about life’s ...

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...

Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...