Life In the beginning: The full story of life on Earth can finally be told. The events of the first 3.5 billion years of evolution are coming to light at last and they include far more drama and ...

How did life on Earth begin? The chemical puzzle just became clearer. February 29, 2024. 6 min.

New research suggests complex life on Earth began 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought. We review the top origin of life theories.

For millions of years, Earth was a hot and rocky planet. Scientists have some hypotheses on how life emerged amid such inhospitable terrain.

Cloud-to-ground lightning strikes simulated in a biosphere mimicking conditions on a young Earth led to chemical reactions resulting in "remarkable yields" of the building blocks for life.

It's a new look into some very, very, very old ways of life — like, 4.6 billion years ago. The Royal Tyrrell Museum has a new exhibit that explores fossils from the Precambrian era. It explains ...

Sidebar: RNA's Role at Beginning of Life - For Further Information Before there was life, there were chemicals. The idea that ribonucleic acid (RNA), because of its catalytic capability and multiple ...

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — Everything has a beginning, and a new study finds that the start of life on Earth arrived in the ...

The new research, on the other hand, says that Earth had these volatiles all alone, and that the life-essential elements were here from the beginning, during the planet’s earliest formation.

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today. NASA ‘fist bumps’ an asteroid to ...

As a result, they were able to estimate the total life that Earth has produced since its beginning — about 10^40 cells, roughly 10 billion times more than currently exist.

The test 30 years ago of what remote sensing could tell us about our own planet shows the value of looking with unbiased eyes at what we think we already know.