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

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

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The universe is thought to have experienced a rapid and exponential expansion in a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

National Science Day celebrated annually on February 28 every year commemorates the anniversary of Sir C.V. Raman’s ground-breaking discovery of the ‘Raman Effect’ in 1928. This discovery earned him ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a distant ancient galaxy suggesting that the early universe ...

A galaxy inside a bubble may be evidence that the universe was starting to become transparent 330 million years after the big bang ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

The ancient reactions an MIT chemist is investigating could provide the key to developing new methods that can extract vast amounts of carbon from our atmosphere.