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

Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Indian- American Sunita Williams returned to Earth early on Wednesday, completing a mission ...

Ancient eruptions may have triggered conditions for oxygen ‘whiffs’ in the atmosphere In a nutshell Massive volcanic events known as Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) likely released carbon dioxide, ...

The research, conducted by scientists at Stanford University, demonstrates that when water droplets collide and form spray, ...

New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.

Ancient microbes illustrate a particular kind of respiration in which carbon dioxide and hydrogen are combined to form acetic ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

A Sun-Times photographer joined stargazers at Montrose Harbor as the Earth’s shadow began to move across the moon early ...

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

Red dust, remote bush and thousand-kilometre journeys now form a quintessential Australia travel experience. For that we can thank Bill King.

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. New ...

Early risers on Friday will be treated to the spectacle of the moon turning blood red as it drops towards the horizon. The ...