Researchers may have finally cracked the age-old mystery about the origins of Earth's water, and the answer might be related ...

Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions ...

Experiment may help explain the ‘most intriguing causal paradox in biology’ about how early life forms came together about 4 ...

How did the Earth and moon form? The Earth, like all the other planets in the solar system, started out its life as a disc of dust and gas orbiting the young sun. The dust particles were brought ...

Scientists discovered chemical reactions that place amino acids on tRNAs and extend peptide chains without enzymes, a key ...

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) ...

Clues about how worlds like Earth may have formed have been found buried at the heart of a spectacular 'cosmic butterfly'.

How Earth's atmosphere transformed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich over a span of about two billion years has been revealed by an international team of researchers.

Chemists at UCL (University College London) have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic ...