In a new book, astrophysicist Mario Livio describes how the existence of life on Earth can be traced back to an RNA-based ...

Everything has a beginning, and a new study finds that the start of life on Earth arrived in the form of melted asteroids.

One of the key components for the evolution of life as we know it is the presence of “volatiles”: elements and compounds that ...

According to an article published in the journal PNAS, different lineages of amoebae and ancestors of plants, algae and ...

Researchers have pinpointed a series of geological reaction conditions that could have sparked the origin of life on Earth.

A recent study suggests that by the Neoproterozoic period, distinct lineages of amoebae, as well as the ancestors of plants, ...

Research shows zinc from meteorites played a key role in delivering volatile elements that helped create life on Earth.

Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements ...

"One of the most fundamental questions on the origin of life is where the materials we need for life to evolve came from," study team leader Rayssa Martins, from the Department of Earth Sciences at ...