The origin of life is one of the great questions of humankind. One of the prerequisites for the emergence of life is the abiotic -- not by living beings caused chemical -- production and ...

The origin of life on Earth has always been a mystery.For many years, scientists have looked to the stars, believing that the building blocks of life that set forth evolution here on our planet ...

In a groundbreaking analysis that could shift the landscape of biological understanding, researchers from the University of ...

A new study is challenging long-held beliefs about the origins of life and the building blocks that led to the first genes.

Since the origin of life, metabolic networks provide cells with nutrition and energy. Modern networks require thousands of enzymes that perform catalysis. Such networks must have arisen from ...

Between 4.6 billion and 4.0 billion years ago, there was probably no life on Earth. The planet's surface was at first molten and even as it cooled, it was getting pulverized by asteroids and comets.

Close to 4 billion years ago, the first life must have taken hold; we know this because life was robust enough that, by around 3.5 billion years ago, that the first bacteria were abundant enough ...

(Inside Science) — Experts believe the building blocks of life first bumped into each other about 3.5 billion years ago. This serendipitous collision somehow helped form the first rudimentary ...

The results, published in the Oct. 8 issue of the journal Science, lend credence to a theory that life arose near underwater volcanic vents, which to this day support thriving, self-contained ...