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

The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...

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Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

For years, scientists have estimated that LUCA likely ... As such, our understanding of LUCA impacts our understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth. Was LUCA a simple or complex organism?

Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on Earth after nearly nine months in space and readjusting to ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred ... oceans with nutrients that they say may have shaped how complex life evolved. This ancient period of deep ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are on their way back to Earth, with a splashdown off Florida coast expected late this afternoon.

The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have helped create the building ... or waterfalls that jump-started life on this planet. "On early Earth, there were water sprays all over ...