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

An international team of researchers has discovered a super-Earth that will allow astronomers to test new hypotheses in the quest for life in the Universe. Thirty years after the discovery of ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Barry Wilmore said that astronauts, NASA and Boeing need to spend time analyzing the Starliner mission to improve future ...

"The exercise enabled us to estimate the number of terrestrial species of life on Earth, including all the numbers unknown to ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on ...

"We are really trying to understand how far we can go, chemically, toward larger biological molecules and what environments are needed to form them." ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves ...

A supercomputer has produced a predictive model detailing the tectonic catastrophe that would end life on Earth as we know it ...

New microlightning research out of Stanford adds a "striking" twist to an existing theory about how life may have originated ...

Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, though with a bit less scenery-chewing than that classic film scene. But where did that organic ...