Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...

The new approach looks at the distribution of molecular fragments in material, allowing for broad surveys in degraded ...

Oxygen, essential to our existence, took nearly a billion years to appear in significant quantities on Earth, despite the ...

The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

Pairing detailed analysis with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found fresh chemical evidence ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

The scientific community has been electrified by this new theory. The inception of life on Earth may have been the result of chemical reactions sparked by lightning strikes, a new study from Harvard ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

LifeTracer uses machine learning to spot subtle molecular patterns that separate biological chemistry from nonliving organics ...

What are the physics of life? That is more than just a philosophical question—it has practical implications for our search ...