From the beginning of time to the origins of life, our "when" special series tackles the timing of crucial events and the ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the cond ...

Scientists explore Lost City, in the Atlantic, where chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents could explain the origin of ...

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

And can we 'derive' it in a ... 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 evolutionary ...

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