Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial ...

Science still faces mysteries like dark matter, consciousness, and the origin of life—questions that challenge researchers and push the limits of understanding.

The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe elsewhere ...

In a peer-reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “ last universal common ancestor .” The ...

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics ...

For centuries, humans have looked to the stars, the oceans, and even the tiniest cells to answer one impossible question: why does life exist at all? From philosophers to physicists, theories have ...

New laboratory research suggests that some organic molecules previously detected in plumes erupting from Saturn’s moon ...

"In spring, this ice begins to warm up and sublimate. The last remnants of this ice are located on the shaded side of the ...

BEIJING -- A group of fossilized tunnels dug by animals about 550 million years ago, discovered in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China, have offered new insights into how the earliest ...

NASA confirms water`s chemical signature on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a discovery that could reveal secrets of distant ...

The fossil was uncovered in Myanmar’s Kachin region and has been identified as a new species named Cretosabethes primaevus.