Recent findings from researchers at UCLA and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are shaking up our understanding of life’s ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

New research offers a potential explanation for the formation of early Earth protocells. Few questions have captivated ...

Primitive droplets stabilized by rain? This could be the key to the emergence of life. New studies are exploring this surprising hypothesis. The formation of modern cells, true ...

Recent findings indicate that the chirality of molecules, critical to life's structure, might not have been as fixed in early ...

Due to DNA’s complexity, scientists theorize that a simpler molecule preceded it billions of years ago during early life ...

Finding evidence for the first life ever to emerge on planet earth is a long, tough slog. But oddly enough, real answers may ultimately come from Mars.

Biomolecular condensates are also changing how scientists think about the origins of life on Earth. There is ample evidence that nucleotides, the building blocks of RNA and DNA, can very plausibly ...

offering a window into the early days of our solar system's formation and holding clues about the origins of life on Earth. In a recent study, scientists developed a groundbreaking model to trace ...