While the Cambrian Explosion kickstarted complex life in a major way some 530 million years, the true timeline of life on ...

New research reveals that hydrothermal vents provided early Earth with abundant nitrogen, challenging previous theories.

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

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 ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might ...

"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes, this is a major breakthrough in ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

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

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...