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We now know that life began on Earth much earlier than we thought
A big rethink of our planet鈥檚 early years adds to growing fossil, chemical and DNA evidence that Earth was only a few hundred million years old when life began
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Top astrobiologist explores the possibilities of alien life
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Has the mystery of life鈥檚 ‘handedness’ finally been cracked?
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Donald Johanson: Unearthing Lucy changed my life and the world
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Oldest rocks on Earth may contain strange and ancient life forms
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Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought
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Technology
Google creates self-replicating life from digital ‘primordial soup’
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Protocells on early Earth may have been formed by squeezing geysers
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Life鈥檚 vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock
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Space
How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life’s origins
What did NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to sample Bennu discover? Mission leader Dante Lauretta says the asteroid could hold clues about how life began
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Space
Why space dust is key to everything from star birth to life on Earth
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Chemistry
Crucial chemical for life can form in conditions found on early Earth
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Space
Cosmic dust may have been crucial to the beginnings of life on Earth
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Life
Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem
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