Earth’s earliest atmosphere may have done more than shield the planet from the Sun. New research suggests the sky itself helped supply early life with key sulfur-based molecules, long thought to ...

A groundbreaking study published in ChemSystemsChem proposes that the origins of life on Earth might not stem from ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice bulldozers" that pulverized our planet's crust and may have contributed to ...

According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...

Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...

People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet. Scientists have reason to believe that some of the moons in our solar system – ...

Between a rock and a green place: Michelle Gehringer studies fossilized life on early Earth to learn more about the evolution of (oxygenic) photosynthesis - the process that makes the oxygen we breath ...

Scientists are debating the Earth's first creature, with evidence pointing to simple, sponge-like organisms emerging around ...

Introduction : The coherence of history / Stephen Jay Gould -- The planetary setting of prebiotic evolution / Sherwood Chang -- Early environments : constraints and opportunities for early evolution / ...

A study shows that maternal stress one year after birth has the strongest impact on early development, highlighting the need ...

A CU Boulder-led study finds that Earth's early atmosphere could have produced key sulfur biomolecules essential for life, ...