The story of life on Earth is deeply intertwined with the evolution of photosynthesis, a process that transformed the ...

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

An unusual mode of energy metabolism discovered in a newly identified microbe provides fresh insights into primitive life ...

Scientists have long wondered why life exclusively uses left-handed amino acids, and a groundbreaking study has just made ...

Archeologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts admits that explaining life on Earth in one evening is “a bit ambitious”.

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 ...

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a discovery that RNA—a key molecule ...

An international team of scientists recently published a study highlighting the potential role of iron sulfides in the ...