The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.
New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.
The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...
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.
The origin of life on Earth is one of science’s biggest questions, and previous theories have suggested that lightning may have played a role. While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric ...
A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...
Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.