Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their formation but ours managed to hit.

The experts can use these findings in their search for life on exoplanets with similar chemical profiles.

Life on Earth rests on a knife-edge of chemistry that could easily have tipped the other way. As geochemists reconstruct the ...

Ancient enzymes show life’s nitrogen signal stayed unchanged for billions of years, helping scientists read early Earth.

Earth is the only planet that supports life, and it is not just because of water or oxygen. Scientists have discovered that when our planet was born, it was sitting in the "chemical Goldilocks zone”, ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

Earth’s habitability may trace back to a precise chemical balance during its formation, one that kept life-critical elements from disappearing into the core or drifting into space.

Neil Garg is leading the charge to rewrite a fundamental principle that's been part of organic chemistry since 1924 - Bredt's ...

Well, at least that means no alien invasions anytime soon.

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves ...