NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists today.

MSU scientists studied microbes in Yellowstone hot springs to understand how life adapted to increasing oxygen levels.

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

Scientists may have figured out how Mars hung onto its surface liquid water in its ancient history via alternating periods of ...

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

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...