A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

And can we 'derive' it in a purely ... Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient ...

Happiness, identity, fairness, death, reality, time, nature, good, knowledge and purpose are all things children encounter ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

How life evolved is one of the central questions ... most likely decomposed rapidly under the conditions of early Earth—meaning that the first genomes would be biased toward UV-resistant sequences.

“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life.” The samples from Bennu came from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the prebiotic processes that may have led to life. By exposing organic molecules to ...

Researcher Jason Dworkin holds a vial of asteroid Bennu sample from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, delivered to Earth in 2023. © NASA/James Tralie Asteroid Bennu not ...