It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

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 ...

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

His work points to large, landlocked “soda lakes” as potential reservoirs that could have maintained sufficiently high concentrations of phosphorus to support prebiotic chemistry and eventually ...

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 ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the prebiotic processes that may have led to life on Earth. In the Painted Desert ...

A newly published study investigates how complex chemical mixtures respond to repeated environmental fluctuations, providing insights ... how early chemical systems could have achieved the complexity ...