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

The atmosphere may have blanketed the Earth with molecules containing sulfur billions of years ago. In A Nutshell Laboratory ...

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...

Using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer capable of detecting trace chemicals, the researchers discovered that their early Earth simulation created an entire collection of sulfur biomolecules. These ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

Maybe the first life on Earth was part of an 'RNA world.' Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library via Getty Images How life on Earth started has puzzled scientists for a long time. And it still does.

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

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

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

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 ...