The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ...

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

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 ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

High in the Andes Mountains, glaciers have fed life for centuries. Their frozen stores of water support millions of people ...

Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was a chaotic, lifeless world — a fiery hell with spewing volcanoes and meteorite impacts ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

A chemical reaction involving tiny flashes of light in water droplets may have laid the foundation for life on Earth.

A new study adds another angle to the much-disputed Miller-Urey hypothesis, which argues that life on the planet emerged from ...

but the tiny sparks made by crashing waves or waterfalls that jump-started life on this planet. "On early Earth, there were water sprays all over the place—into crevices or against rocks ...