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

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

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

Water is essential to life, yet its true origin on Earth still stirs debate. Scientists have long wondered whether it came ...

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

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

Recent experiments suggest that those sprays of water may have helped jump-start ... theory about the origins of life on Earth. Researchers are still trying to puzzle out exactly how life made ...

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 origin of water can be traced back to the birth of the solar system. The series of events that triggered the phenomenon of the formation of aquatic water bodies on Earth remain a source of ...

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

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves. New ...