According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...

A CU Boulder-led study finds that Earth's early atmosphere could have produced key sulfur biomolecules essential for life, ...

Using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer capable of detecting trace chemicals, the researchers discovered that their early Earth simulation created an entire collection of sulfur biomolecules. These ...

Research partly conducted at the Advanced Photon Source helped scientists discover the composition of Earth’s first atmosphere. What they found raises questions about the origin of life on Earth. A ...

Earth’s atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published Dec. 1 in ...

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates Earth in its infancy probably had substantial quantities of hydrogen in its atmosphere, a surprising finding that may alter the way many ...

Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and, through careful work, scientists have pieced together a timeline of its past. But much of its earliest history remains a mystery. Scant geological ...

The first hard-shelled animals, like the trilobite at center, needed a lot of oxygen to move around and make a living. It seems the history of oxygen on Earth will have to be adjusted, based on a new ...

Organic haze in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon, Titan, is similar to haze in early Earth’s air — haze that may have helped nourish life on our planet– according to a NASA Astrobiology Institute study ...

Collisions among molecules in early Earth’s atmosphere may have prevented our planet from freezing over eons ago, when the sun was much dimmer than it is today, keeping the world warm enough for life ...

In this Nov. 28, 2019, file photo, smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant in Hejin in central China's Shanxi Province. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil, File) (CN) --- New research suggests that ...