According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...

Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...

When you look at photographs of Earth from space, the planet looks like a blue marble, with patterns of clouds lying on the surface of the marble. It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, ...

Using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer capable of detecting trace chemicals, the researchers discovered that their early Earth simulation created an entire collection of sulfur biomolecules. These ...

On Ancient Earth, rust deep in the oceans played a critical role in the formation of Earth How did oxygen escape from the oceans to form Earth’s atmosphere and create breathable air? Rust played a ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Oxygen, essential to our existence, took nearly a billion years to appear in significant quantities on Earth, despite the ...

Using primitive meteorites called chondrites as their models, earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have performed outgassing calculations and shown that the early Earth ...

For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths. Using data gathered with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and new analysis ...

Leipzig. In the atmosphere, gaseous sulfuric acid can form particles that influence the physical properties of clouds. Thus, the formation of sulfuric acid in the gas phase directly affects the ...