The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

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

The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...

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

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Although the movie’s participants refuse to disclose classified information, some of their statements elicited “audible gasps ...

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose weeklong Boeing Starliner mission turned into an extended stay in space, have ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on Earth, but their journey isn’t over—they must now physically ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

It’s thought that early Earth contained a primordial soup of ingredients ... the chemicals created would be too diluted to widely kickstart life. If it happened in shallow ponds, the chances ...