The very first cells obtained their energy from geochemical reactions. LMU researchers have now managed to recreate this ...

A new study suggests that life may emerge rapidly on Earth-like planets once conditions become favorable. By analyzing ...

On Earth, that gas – called dimethyl sulfide ... Does this mean that scientists have found life on another world? Perhaps – ...

Scientists are concerned with how abiogenesis — the inception of life from non-living matter — could have occurred in the first place; some theories state that certain environments on Earth, like ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...