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.

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The origin of life on Earth is one of science ... water is highly reactive […].On early Earth, there were water sprays all over the place—into crevices or against rocks, and they can ...

Although it makes up 70 per cent of our planet's surface, scientists still don't all agree on where Earth's water actually comes from. Now, researchers claim to have found the origins of water in ...