Primitive droplets stabilized by rain? This could be the key to the emergence of life. New studies are exploring this surprising hypothesis. The formation of modern cells, true ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist?

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...