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

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

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

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 ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

Life on Earth may have been kickstarted by 'microlightning ... adding that crashing waves or waterfalls appear to be the true origins of life.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

In Western Australia’s Pilbara region, there has been a discovery that has exposed Earth’s oldest crater, said to be 3.5 billion years old, and maybe could be the origin of life. This old geological ...

Penn State researchers propose that Earth and life have evolved together in a way that is more typical of life-supporting ...

Researchers found the world’s oldest impact crater in Western Australia. The crater was created by a massive meteorite impact ...