The University College London research builds on years of efforts to trace the origins of Earth’s early genetic materials.

A meteor streaks across the sky and burns up in a flash. Sometimes, a small piece survives the journey through Earth’s ...

The search for life on other worlds needs a way to sift through the chemistry of their atmospheres. If another species ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

One of humanity’s most profound questions is whether life exists beyond Earth — and if so, what forms it might take. For ...

The earliest days of Earth held secrets that scientists are still trying to uncover. One of the greatest mysteries is how ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope have collected first-of-its-kind evidence for cloud formation on ...

New research strengthens the case that Venus, long considered a geologically stagnant world, may be more Earth-like in its ...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today ...

These early collisions formed mile-wide ... Competing ideas—like the moon splitting from Earth or forming elsewhere—don’t match the chemistry of lunar rock. Only the giant impact explains ...

Minerals swept up on land by this “glacial broom” altered marine chemistry ... Snowball Earth offers a window into our planet’s past, but it also presents valuable insights into modern ...