The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

LIFE ON EARTH may have originated with DNA's cousin RNA, but how the modern world evolved from the RNA world is still mostly unknown. Now, in a new study published last week in the journal Nature, ...

The idea of panspermia is that life originated on another planet, which was then impacted to eject material into space, which then migrated to planet Earth, seeding our world with the earliest life ...

The origin of life on Earth has always been a mystery. For many years, scientists have looked to the stars, believing that the building blocks of life that set forth evolution here on our planet came ...

Half a century ago, a quiet theorist working far from the big Western labs proposed a radical answer to one of science’s ...

The Archaea was recognized as a third domain of life 40 years ago. Molecular evidence soon suggested that the Eukarya represented a sister group to the Archaea or that eukaryotes descended from ...

Elon Musk has never been shy about grand comparisons, but his latest claim pushes even his own scale of ambition. He now ...

Scientists suspect that the complex life that slithers and crawls through every nook and cranny on Earth emerged from a random shuffling of non-living matter that ultimately spit out the building ...

Scientists may have been searching for Martian life in the wrong place, according to a new article published in Nature Geoscience. Instead of combing the Red Planet's surface, research should dig deep ...

At first glance, it seems strange to think that math used for describing business competition, fighting terrorists and playing poker would also have anything to do with the origin of life. But you ...