Current plans for lunar exploration may end up destroying ancient, genetic samples from Earth that have ended up on the moon.
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Genetic data has helped scientists develop new estimates for the origin and evolution of life on Earth.
New research suggests life on Earth became more diverse because of a change in biology related to stem cells, not just rising oxygen levels.
Dust can be instructive. The analysis of those collected around the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko provided new information on the history of the solar system.
Tiny tubes and filaments of iron found in rocks in Canada turned out to be the remains of microbes from over 3.7 billion years ago.
New research suggests how asteroids may have helped create conditions for life on Earth. But we shouldn’t get too carried away with the idea – yet.
New research suggests the “primordial soup” theory can’t explain how living cells evolved to harness energy.
Scientists have uncovered genes they believe have been passed down from an ancestor organism that all life evolved from.
A new theory could explain why the key molecules of life - DNA and RNA - only come in one of two possible forms.
Life on Earth may have started with a bit of sunshine and showers, followed with a light breeze of laughing gas and a sprinkle of hydrogen cyanide.
Study suggests that comets and meteorites could have seeded planets beyond our own solar system with life.
Is this where it all began?
The origin of life is still an unsolved riddle. How were life’s building blocks first assembled?
The debate has raged for years on the origin of life-like structure in an ancient rocky find in Western Australia. But is it evidence of early life?
Scientists working with data sent back by the now-slumbering Philae lander have announced the discovery of organic molecules on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Finding organic compounds on 67P’s surface…
The drama of Philae’s slow fall, bounce and unfortunate slide into hibernation was one of the most thrilling science stories of a generation. But what in its short 60 hours of life on Comet 67P did it…
Theoretical physicists are caricatured in the popular imagination as only involved in abstruse and difficult-to-imagine topics. But some of these theoretical physicists are involved in something closer…
Scientists have simulated the electrical energy produced in the Earth that may have led to life 3.5 billion years ago. Using a fuel cell, researchers from the University of Leeds and NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
How life came about from inanimate sets of chemicals is still a mystery. While we may never be certain which chemicals existed on prebiotic Earth, we can study the biomolecules we have today to give us…
No one knows how life began on Earth. But for it to happen, some simple chemical building blocks would have been needed. Many scientists argue the Earth’s violent past, with its massive volcanoes and regular…
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Planetary Exploration, University of Stirling
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Associate professor, Australian National University
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Professor, University of Alberta
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Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Director of DAIM, University of Hull
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Reader in chemistry, University of Leeds
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Planetary Science, University of Leicester
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Professor of Applied Mathematical Physics, University of Southampton
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Director of the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sydney
