Life on Earth has always depended on nitrogen ... when atmospheric oxygen levels began to rise. One key geological formation that holds clues about this ancient nitrogen cycle is the Manjeri ...

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 ...

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

Scientists say that in order for life to emerge, Earth needs organic compounds which include nitrogen and carbon. However, ...

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old ... From these, they have suggested possibilities where life first began. Some microorganisms thrive in the scalding, highly acidic hot springs environments like ...

Earth, in its infancy, swirled with all the gases needed to construct life. But they couldn’t just assemble themselves into the building blocks of biology. That process, called “prebiotic ...

Earth’s earliest forms of life, such as microbes ... By the end of the Neoproterozoic, as Earth’s icy cover began to thaw, major chemistry shifts were taking place in Earth’s atmosphere ...

This study provides a crucial piece of the puzzle of Earth's impact history and suggests ... specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in ...

Large soda lakes - those without natural runoff - could have built and sustained extremely high concentrations of phosphorus.

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A new study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

A new study adds another angle to the much-disputed Miller-Urey hypothesis, which argues that life on the planet emerged from ...

A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...