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 ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-Smith ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

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

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on ...