The timing of Earth's early formation points to a planet that started out dry. So, life’s essential building blocks arrived ...

Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New model suggests an ocean of magma formed within the first few hundred million years of Earth's ...

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Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, possesses a thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere that bears striking similarities to that of early Earth. Scientists are fascinated by Titan’s atmospheric composition and its ...

Sixty-six million years ago a 10-kilometer-wide space rock fell out of the sky over what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico. When it hit Earth, it blew a Maryland-sized hole in the ...

A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have determined that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) – the microbe from ...