The Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft visited the asteroid Ryugu, which had flowing water for over a billion years. This unexpected discovery, made when the spacecraft collected and returned samples, adds ...

Water once flowed through asteroid Ryugu and possibly in early solar system, Japanese researchers claim Experts have ...

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

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

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

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

Experiment may help explain the ‘most intriguing causal paradox in biology’ about how early life forms came together about 4 billion years ago ...

A massive hydrothermal field, Kunlun, has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean, exceeding the size of the Lost City. This ...