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A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the ...

It is the ultimate mystery of biology: How did life begin? Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. A team of Harvard scientists has brought us closer to an answer by creating ...

Biosphere 2 isn’t just the site of a famous human experiment. Today, scientists there work to understand how life emerges in ...

The question of when life began on Earth is as old as human culture. “It's one of these fundamental human questions: When did life appear on Earth?” said Professor Martin Whitehouse of the Swedish ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao In a ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed "Snowball Earth". Liquid water appears ...

The mystery of how life on Earth originated , and whether it exists elsewhere in the universe, are "the raison d’être of space exploration", said Louis Friedman, co-founder of the Planetary Society.

It is the ultimate mystery of biology: How did life begin? A team of Harvard scientists has brought us closer to an answer by creating artificial cell-like chemical systems that simulate metabolism, ...