Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the ...

Learn about the precarious state of satellites orbiting Earth, as greenhouse gas pollution puts them in danger of colliding ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

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

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Riding with SpaceX’s Transporter-13 mission, NASA’s EZIE CubeSats will unlock the mysteries of auroral electrojets. These ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

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 ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.