That's because these biographers of the primordial deal in increments of millions and even billions of years as they struggle to reconstruct our planet's life ... back to Earth's beginnings ...

A recent groundbreaking NASA study has revealed a significant discovery about the protein configurations that may give rise ...

Cosmic dust may have delivered elements crucial for life to early Earth. Our planet is relatively poor in several elements that are necessary for the chemistry of life, but the dust that ...

Complex life on Earth may be older than previously thought. New findings suggest that conditions for life existed 1.5 billion years earlier than it was originally considered to have begun.

If we did find traces of life beyond Earth, we might learn more about the beginnings of its evolution here.' Peredur Williams Source: The Observatory: A Review of Astronomy 'The book is a stimulating ...

Scientists have uncovered a tantalising clue to the origins of life on Earth, finding complex organic molecules in a distant interstellar cloud. A team of researchers led by MIT has detected ...