Hints of ancient microbes in Martian rocks and a revived theory about our cosmic ancestry are forcing scientists to rethink ...

LIFE ON EARTH may have originated with DNA's cousin RNA, but how the modern world evolved from the RNA world is still mostly unknown. Now, in a new study published last week in the journal Nature, ...

The idea of panspermia is that life originated on another planet, which was then impacted to eject material into space, which then migrated to planet Earth, seeding our world with the earliest life ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

The origin of life on Earth has always been a mystery. For many years, scientists have looked to the stars, believing that the building blocks of life that set forth evolution here on our planet came ...

Living organisms arose from lifeless chemistry. But how? Perhaps the chemicals that support life as we know it also supported primordial life. If so, primordial life relied on RNA and DNA, as the RNA ...

Scientists suspect that the complex life that slithers and crawls through every nook and cranny on Earth emerged from a random shuffling of non-living matter that ultimately spit out the building ...

Scientists may have been searching for Martian life in the wrong place, according to a new article published in Nature Geoscience. Instead of combing the Red Planet's surface, research should dig deep ...

Elon Musk has never been shy about grand comparisons, but his latest claim pushes even his own scale of ambition. He now ...

At first glance, it seems strange to think that math used for describing business competition, fighting terrorists and playing poker would also have anything to do with the origin of life. But you ...

Studying the origin of life is a real challenge. Any actual evidence of the specific chemicals involved has long since been destroyed, leaving researchers with a big gap to bridge between the ...