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

Large soda lakes may have provided the high phosphorus levels needed for life to begin on Earth, offering a new explanation ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

The Medusae Fossae Formation of Mars has ice deposits over 2 miles deep, potentially providing vital water resources for ...

Large soda lakes - those without natural runoff - could have built and sustained extremely high concentrations of phosphorus.

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ago for life to ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

New research reveals that only the most intense Atlantic-sourced storms are responsible for filling a normally dry lake in ...

But a water origin of those features is not accepted yet. It could be dry avalanches. We’ve seen a lot of things on Mars, and on other planets, that have no good analogs on Earth. Dark streaks ...