Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

It will lead to more purple, brown, or green hues in coastal or stratified areas, with less deep blue color in water as ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

A common mineral, α-alumina, found abundantly in Earth's crust, may have played a critical role in initiating the chemical ...

Scientists have made a bold leap in the search for life’s origins ... serve to explain the emergence of the first living organisms on primordial Earth,” Matsuo explained.

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There ...

dating from the very dawn of complex life on earth more than 500 million years ago. Their very names—Hallucigenia, Anomalocaris—testify to their strangeness. For decades they have fired the ...

To recreate a scenario that may have produced Earth’s first organic molecules ... and form more complex molecules, eventually leading to the evolution of life. “Microdischarges between ...