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

In a nutshell Water droplets create “microlightning” when they split, producing electrical discharges without any external ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

but the tiny sparks made by crashing waves or waterfalls that jump-started life on this planet. "On early Earth, there were water sprays all over the place -- into crevices or against rocks ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

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 ...

The position of this Great Filter, as he named it, is critically important as we contemplate the future of humanity. If the ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered evidence that Earth's oceans were once green, hinting that this could be a marker of early life, ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...