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

So how did our planet end up with such a special moon? The answer is that, surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

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

A lab mistake led to self-forming spiral patterns on metal surfaces, revealing chemical-mechanical interactions.

Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

Astronomers say that the discovery provides evidence that the universe developed much faster after the Big Bang than ...

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 ...

Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...

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

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...