All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped. The team found evidence of a major meteorite impact 3.5 billion ... Giant Ice Bulldozers ...

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare. But as experts on the entangled ...

Researchers found the world’s oldest impact crater in Western Australia. The crater was created by a massive meteorite impact ...

A team of researchers at Penn State, who led the work, said the new interpretation of humanity's origin increases the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. "This is a ...