ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ... An Earful of Gill: Evolutionary Origin of the Mammalian Outer ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

A recent study from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions.

supporting the theory that life on Earth is extraterrestrial in origin. The slight imbalance in chirality observed in many organic molecules could be an indicator that life on Earth originated ...

By exploring Yellowstone's geothermal springs, scientists discovered the microbes that reveal how life adapted to harsh conditions billions of years ago.

Section of Thoracic Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway Background: Early life development may influence subsequent respiratory morbidity. The impact of factors determined in ...

The team, led by Christopher K Jones explores the evolution of the Earth from formation to the evolution of life. They review a number of different pathways for the origins of life during the Hadean ...

A family tragedy resurfaced, a clan found their place of pilgrimage in Greece and some myth busting emerged along the way.