About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

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

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

Similarly, some recurring dreams (not nightmares) might be a part of you, signaling that this is not your first life on earth. Has it ever happened that you have visited a place for the first time, ...

Michaela Coel has proven to be a force to be reckoned with in the industry, especially after her series I May Destroy You won ...

NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore are adjusting to life back on Earth after spending more than ...

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 ...

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

Hugs with family, grilled cheese and sneaking in a run—the NASA astronauts who were posted up in orbit for months are getting ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

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

While some scientists support the notion of electrically charged beginnings for life’s earliest building blocks, an alternative abiogenesis hypothesis proposes that Earth’s first amino acids ...