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

Today it represents something quite different: a set of extraordinary clues, recently reinterpreted, to one of the deepest and most puzzling mysteries of life on Earth. After burbling along for ...

The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any other telescope on Earth. Instead of a single mirror, th ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have ...

The Earth casts a shadow on the surface of the moon, dimming it. The next lunar eclipse visible in the U.S. after this week is predicted for March 3, 2026. For the first time in more than two ...

While some scientists support the notion of electrically charged beginnings for life’s earliest building blocks, an alternative abiogenesis hypothesis proposes that Earth’s first amino acids ...