Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past.

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The telescope will capture a three-dimensional map of the universe, collecting data on more than 450 million galaxies and over 100 million stars ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

I had talked to him a couple of times, then one day, in August 2017, Jimmy  Centeno turned up in my office at the University ...