Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

Using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer capable of detecting trace chemicals, the researchers discovered that their early Earth simulation created an entire collection of sulfur biomolecules. These ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

Some of the oldest objects in the solar system still drift above your head. Asteroids and comets formed before Earth took ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...