Before sunlight ever reached the planet, another force may have sparked life—electricity. Deep beneath the ocean floor, ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

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One of the chemicals considered essential to life on Earth may have originated in outer space, researchers have found. Nitrogen compounds, including ammonium salts, may have made their way to Earth ...

Artificial intelligence advances how scientists explore materials. Researchers trained a machine-learning (ML) model to assess the stability of rare-earth compounds. The framework they developed ...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

Long before dinosaurs munched on leafy greens or photosynthesizing algae soaked up the sun, a lifeless soup of simple molecules floated through the watery and rocky landscape of early planet Earth.

Astrophysicists from Keele University, alongside an international research team supported by NASA, detected large complex ...

In a recent study published in ISME Communications, a team of researchers led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) examined the health effects of reef microorganisms from chemical ...