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

The latest in the fight over the teaching of evolution in classrooms across America is taking place in Pennsylvania, but local and state school boards in Maryland, Georgia, Ohio, Missouri, South ...

A Stanford study shows that tiny electrical charges in water droplets caused reactions that developed organic matter from inorganic materials.

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

The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. Various answers have been proposed, all of which remain unverified. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

Along with nitrogen and carbon, phosphorus is an essential element for life on Earth. It is a central component of molecules ...

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

To explain the remarkable diversity of life histories among species we must understand how evolution shapes organisms to optimize their reproductive success. The principal aim of life history ...

A sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has been found to contain an abundance of water and carbon, reinforcing the theory that life on Earth was seeded from outer space. Just two weeks after ...