Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

According to a new study the early Earth’s ancient sky may have played a much larger, proactive role in generating the chemical ingredients for life than scientists once believed.The study ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet ...

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

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from ...

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science used a powerful combination of cutting-edge chemistry and artificial intelligence to peer through the geological fog of time in search of the very ...

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...