Research adds weight to theory Arrokoth’s two lobes produced by gravitational collapse – and reveals process ...

Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

Scientists think they’ve found a way to investigate the creation of cell membranes and DNA genomes that gave rise to the last universal common ancestor.

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

The Kardashev Scale measures a civilization’s energy use. Comparing Earth to alien civilizations shows how far we still have ...

A more relaxing, combat-free survival game experience, Astrobotanica is now live on Steam, and it's got a solid roadmap for ...

In this idea, life’s first steps may have happened inside sticky gels attached to surfaces, similar in some ways to modern microbial biofilms. Biofilms are the thin layers of bacteria you see on rocks ...

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

The 1980s were a golden era for science fiction movies, but not everything that hit the big screen aged well. These classics ...

New research led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has uncovered chemical signatures in zircons, the planet’s oldest minerals, that are consistent with subduction and extensive ...

Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, studies into prebiotic chemistry have made a decisive contribution to research into the origins of life. This is the theme of this article, conceived as an ...