In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

2024 — 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 ...

Hot springs, with their unique geochemical properties, have long fascinated researchers studying the origins of life. These ...

As life evolved on Earth, it used and created minerals for exoskeletons and habitats. The hundred minerals present when life first formed have grown to about 5,000 today. For example, zircons are ...

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NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

“We can spend a couple weeks up here, and we start to forget about life on Earth,” he tells me. “First you forget the day of the week. Then you start forgetting to call your family.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists have spent an incredible amount of manpower attempting to determine what ...