New “soup and sandwich” hypothesis suggests spaces between mica layers may have provided exactly the right conditions for earliest life Earth’s first life may have developed between the layers of a ...

The origins of life remain a major mystery. How were complex molecules able to form and remain intact for prolonged periods without disintegrating? A team at ORIGINS, a Munich-based Cluster of ...

How did the building blocks of life originate? The question has long vexed scientists. Early Earth was dotted with pools of water rich in chemicals—a primordial soup. Yet biomolecules supporting life ...

One of the major unanswered questions about the origin of life is how droplets of RNA floating around the primordial soup turned into the membrane-protected packets of life we call cells. A new paper ...

Today, life and the byproducts thereof inhabit every nook and cranny of Earth, but there was a time when nothing lived on our home planet. Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ...

Washington, DC–The organic soup that spawned life on Earth may have gotten generous helpings from outer space, according to a new study. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have discovered ...

The origins of life remain a major mystery. How were complex molecules able to form and remain intact for prolonged periods without disintegrating? A team has demonstrated a mechanism that could have ...