Study, based in part at Berkeley Lab, also suggests dwarf planet in asteroid belt may be a source of rich organic matter

Recent experiments demonstrate that key chemical reactions that support life today could have been carried out with ingredients likely present on the planet four billion years ago

Deep ocean basalts record 3.5-billion-year history of oceanic and atmospheric oxygen levels

Scientists have confirmed that microscopic fossils discovered in a nearly 3.5 billion-year-old piece of rock in Western Australia are the oldest fossils ever found and indeed the earliest direct evidence of life on Earth

Perimeter Institute launches the Centre for the Universe, a global focal point for research into key questions in cosmology

American and New Zealand researchers use experimental evidence to overturn widely-accepted theory on the dawn of life on Earth

Though the "warm little ponds" concept has been around since Darwin, the researchers have now proven its plausibility through numerous evidence-based calculations

The evolutionary path to first proteins may have been paved with relatively easy, small square-dance steps

The new computational model may help explain that gap in the evolution of chemistry into biology

Research team finds the answer in ancient sedimentary rocks from central Australia