So, how did the small amounts found at the surface get there ... Even so, the experiment gave rise to a new scientific field called prebiotic or abiotic chemistry, the chemistry that preceded the ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Mar. 25, 2025 — Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion ...

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

We review the top origin of life theories. For centuries ... If it arose from inanimate matter, when and how did it happen? A study led by Cardiff University in Wales, UK, suggests that complex ...

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 ...

Our living planet, as Charles Darwin wrote in On the Origin of Species ... had been alive for the best part of 2 billion years, life remained extremely rudimentary – just bacteria and their ...