Scientists now question how life’s building blocks first appeared before LUCA, reshaping our search for life beyond Earth.

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

To celebrate the groundbreaking research of 2025 Drake Award recipients Dr. David Deamer and Dr. John Baross, the SETI Institute commissioned bioartist Dr. Jennifer Willet to create a unique artwork ...

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctoral student Linda Losurdo makes cosmic dust in her University of Sydney lab as a tool to understand the origins of life. - ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur (seen in this illustration) was discovered in interstellar space for the first time. - ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge have discovered a ribozyme that is shockingly small, yet ...

The study of the origin of life and prebiotic chemistry seeks to elucidate how inanimate chemical systems transitioned into self‐sustaining, evolving entities. Research in this field integrates ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

Oceans churned with lava. Air filled thick with smoke. Asteroids stormed down incessantly. Life during the Hadean Eon four billion years ago was a struggle, and yet that was when it began. 1,2 With no ...