New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

The event, which was held at the Bunkyo Civic Center in the Bunkyo Ward of Tokyo, featured the themes of the earth as seen ...

Large soda lakes may have provided the high phosphorus levels needed for life to begin on Earth, offering a new explanation ...

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit central Myanmar (formerly Burma) Friday (March 28), shaking Mandalay, the country's ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

A group of researchers including scientists of the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo have ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Perhaps the falling of water, the most crucial element that sustains us, also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.” Mindy Weisberger is a science ...