Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

The question of how life appeared on Earth has intrigued generations. Some researchers are now putting forward an unexpected hypothesis: our planet may have been prepared by an intelligence ...

A new take on the origins of Earth’s water claims to reveal the composition of the Earth in the first few million years after ...

In our first interview with Mayer, he discussed using pressure cycling to study prebiotic chemistry. In the second part of ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

At Analytica USA in Columbus, Ohio, Christian Mayer, a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, delivered a talk titled, “Spontaneous Structural Development of a ...

The origin of life on Earth has long remained a mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Cosmic dust may have helped to ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Polyester microdroplets, possible precursors to life, were formed from alpha-hydroxy acids (αHAs) in early Earth-like conditions even at low reaction volume, low reactant concentrations, and/or high ...