Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...
Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.
A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...
Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...