Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...

Cells use proteins to make other proteins - new research could explain how the first proteins arose without other enzymes ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

Life on Earth may have been shaped and formed on a distant planet, according to a new theory that may change our view of the ...

Scientists may have discovered a reaction that provides the “missing link” to help explain how early life formed on Earth about 4 billion years ago. All living things contain ribonucleic acid, ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

NASA has discovered signs of life on Mars in the form of organic carbon, sulfur, rust, and phosphorous in a canyon, and new ...