Until recently, many discounted the idea that life could have existed on Earth before 3.8 billion years ago because it was thought that heavy pummelling from asteroids would have made this impossible.

A new simulation of the time before life began has suggested that ancient amino acids may have kick-started evolution before there was even life on Earth. The study found that ancient amino acids – ...

People have long scratched their heads trying to understand how life ever got going after the formation of Earth billions of years ago. Now, chemists have partly unlocked the recipe by creating a ...

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

After decades of teaching how life began, scientists now say we could have been wrong about the origin of life on Earth.

Did evolution occur before life even existed? New study sheds light on how amino acids “evolved” New research illuminates the ancient processes from which the first life arose on Earth By Troy ...

Mars and ice-covered ocean moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn are intriguing destinations in the search for life outside of Earth. Multiple robotic missions, both current and planned, will explore ...

It’s possible that life on Earth may have started here repeatedly and around the same time at different spots on the globe, says one prominent astrobiologist.

Before we can even crudely estimate the likelihood of life beyond Earth, we need to know a lot more about how life on Earth got started.