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 ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a ...

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions ... combine to form proteins — are life’s most basic building blocks and would have been the first step toward ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in ...

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

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.