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

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

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

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

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

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

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially ... we are really young that might affect our entire life," he says "It's the same thing for planets.

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

If liquid water and elevated crust existed so early in Earth’s history, was life present as well? There is carbon isotope evidence for life in the world’s oldest known volcanic-sedimentary ...

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