A recent study led by NASA has revealed a surprising connection between Earth’s magnetic field and the oxygen levels that sustain life. According to the new research, the ebb and flow of Earth’s ...

Volcanic eruptions can destroy essential infrastructure, ground air traffic for days, wipe out entire cities, disrupt the ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 million years ago,” the authors wrote. “Our findings suggest unexpected strong ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Lightning may have jump-started life by converting atmospheric elements into vital building blocks.

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our atmosphere contains plenty of nitrogen, neither humans nor the vast majority of ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves.

A specific set of chemical conditions led to the emergence of life on Earth. But can life emerge from other chemistries?

While all of the ingredients in the HAMP grains are essential to life, the ammonium is a particularly versatile entry in the biological cookbook, since its molecule is NH3, contributing both ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

NASA scientists have discovered an electric field encompassing Earth’s atmosphere that is as "fundamental" as gravity -- and could even give clues about possible life on other planets.