Earth, for context, is around 4.5 billion years old. That means life first emerged when the planet was still practically a newborn. "We did not expect LUCA to be so old, within just hundreds of ...

According to the study, the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), the first organism that spawned all the life that exists today on Earth, emerged as early as 4.2 billion years ago. The DNA ...

These grains, including micro-diamonds and silicon carbide, date back over 4.6 billion years, predating our ... might have contributed to the start of life on Earth. Its distinctive smell ...

Rich in organic compounds such as amino acids, the meteorite is believed to have contributed to the building blocks of life on Earth. These molecules formed in space's extreme conditions before ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Earth's slow rotation over billions of years may have played a crucial role in oxygenating our atmosphere. Scientists think ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...