Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

And can we 'derive' it in a purely ... Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient ...

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

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

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

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

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

A recent study from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions.