They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

The microorganisms that live near such plumes have led some scientists to suggest them as the birthplaces of Earth’s first life forms. Organic molecules may also have formed in certain types of clay ...

Learn more about Morganucodon and Brasilodon, the two species that may have given life to the mammals we know today.

Microorganisms were the first forms of life on our planet ... However, it is still not clear when and where life originated on Earth and when a diversity of species developed in these early ...

These first, simple and now extinct ... The fossil record places the earliest animal life on Earth at 572-602 million years ago, just as the world came out of a huge ice age, whilst molecular ...

While some scientists support the notion of electrically charged beginnings for life’s earliest building blocks, an alternative abiogenesis hypothesis proposes that Earth’s first amino acids ...

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

Now, our recent study hopes to offer new insights into the origin of life on Earth. Luca was not the first form of life; it was the organism from which all living organisms have descended.

Could Earth harbor even more life? Could it have less ... It was then that the first single-celled creatures appeared, perhaps in undersea volcanic vents, feasting on the chemical energy around ...