A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Polyester microdroplets, formed from alpha-hydroxy acids (αHAs), are promising candidates for protocells, potentially widespread on early Earth. These ...

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

Coronal holes in the Sun continue to send solar wind toward Earth, increasing the chances of Northern Lights across the ...

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 ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a ...

Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...