An English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA world, the chemical milieu from which the first forms of life are thought to have emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. He has solved ...

The first life-forms capable of evolution could have appeared just moments after the Big Bang, a physicist explains. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Scientists now believe life began long before LUCA. Older organisms, now vanished, passed on vital genetic tools. These ...

What were the first life forms like? In a new perspective article, scientists describe a strategy for answering this question by studying the earliest evolution of electron transport chains, a ...

The first life-forms capable of evolution could have appeared just moments after the Big Bang, a physicist explains. Life has found a home on Earth for around 4 billion years. That's a significant ...