The question of life's origin on Earth continues to surprise. A new study challenges an old idea: that a chemical reaction ...

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

It’s one of the most fascinating enigmas in science because, without this crucial first step, called abiogenesis, there would be no life on Earth. One famous experiment in the 1950s suggested ...

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 ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.

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 ...

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 ...

This is far from the first experiment to suggest cloud-to-ground lightning as a potential key to unlocking life on Earth. American chemist and Nobel Prize winner Harold Urey and his research ...

If we can understand how these materials came to be on Earth, it might give us clues to how life originated here, and how it might emerge elsewhere.' New evidence has emerged suggesting that the ...

The first molecules necessary for life on Earth could have been created when tiny flickers of “microlightning” between drops of water sparked the necessary chemical reactions. “This is a new ...