Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

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

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals shaped reactions, and molecules bumped into each other by chance. Out of this ...

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

A new study brings scientists closer to uncovering how life began on Earth.

Billions of years ago a planet called Theia collided with Earth in a massive impact. This film explores how the crash shaped ...

Moving ice on early Earth exposed deep rocks, freed key elements, and nudged our planet toward conditions where complex life ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

New study reveals how aminoacyl-thiols may have kickstarted protein synthesis, shedding light on life's origins.

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