Caltech researchers have identified a novel chemical reaction that could explain the formation of the building blocks of DNA ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how the building blocks of life formed on a 4.6–billion–year–old asteroid, and it could rewrite our own origin story. In 2023, NASA's OSIRIS–REx mission recovered ...

The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how ...

Assembly Theory is a way to understand how the complexity of life emerged through a mechanism of “self-assembly.” It could explain how life formed on Earth—or other planets—via the shortest path to ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

Researchers demonstrated how amino acids could spontaneously attach to RNA under early Earth-like conditions using thioesters, providing a long-sought clue to the origins of protein synthesis. This ...

How did life on Earth begin, and were the ingredients for life already on Earth or were they brought here from space? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a ...