Scientists believe that simple molecules of short fatty chains of fewer than 10 carbon-carbon bonds (complex fatty chains can ...

Primitive droplets stabilized by rain? This could be the key to the emergence of life. New studies are exploring this surprising hypothesis. The formation of modern cells, true ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

To address the profound question of life’s origin, it is crucial to understand the geological, chemical and environmental conditions on early Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago.

The origins of life in the universe have been a topic of scientific inquiry for centuries. Despite significant progress in ...

This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

offering a window into the early days of our solar system's formation and holding clues about the origins of life on Earth. In a recent study, scientists developed a groundbreaking model to trace ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere ... fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results suggest that ...

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

Imperial researchers have found that, 4.5 billion years ago, ice modified asteroids in a way that may have led to the beginning of life on Earth. (Artist’s impression of geysers escaping from ...