New research suggests complex life on Earth began 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought. We review the top origin of life theories. For centuries, humanity has wondered about the ...

Life is ancient – it emerged on Earth about four billion years ago. We consider how it began and whether we might find life elsewhere. Video by Thomas Lewton Animation by Charity Atukunda ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

Depending on what they find, we may begin wondering about something peculiar. Could our first detection of life beyond Earth simply be life from Earth? Join our Space Forums to keep talking space ...

Complex life on Earth may be older than previously thought. New findings suggest that conditions for life existed 1.5 billion years earlier than it was originally considered to have begun.

Professor Brian Cox explores the origins of life on earth with a visit to the Burgess Shale, a very important fossil field in Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The fossils here ...