The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.
Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets ...
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...
A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...
The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...
All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 ...
Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...
Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.