Chengdu University of Technology-led research has established a high-resolution astrochronological framework spanning ...

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

Michaela Coel has proven to be a force to be reckoned with in the industry, especially after her series I May Destroy You won the 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or ...

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

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

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

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

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Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams describe what's strange about being back on Earth after so long in orbit, ...

The planet Earth thawed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The Moon was created when a Mars-sized object crashed. If there ...

A new study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation. Further analysis also shows that this life form likely sported an early immune system, which ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.