Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

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 ...

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

In their view, inorganic molecules might have reacted due to energy from the Sun or lightning strikes to form life’s building ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets! Scientists found that when mist and sprays collide, they generate microlightning ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

An arrowhead-shaped rock on Mars sporting features that may hint at ancient microbial activity on the Red Planet has left ...

Earth, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star 20 light-years away. With a mass six times that of Eart ...

Water might have formed much earlier than previously thought. Computer simulations show supernovae produced significant ...

Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...