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

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 ...

But is it really unprecedented? In a series of five programmes, Justin Rowlatt explores the geochemical history of life on Earth, and discovers how humans are just the latest species to suddenly ...

5/5 Chris comes back to earth and discovers that he's become a YouTube and internet sensation.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth’s atmosphere won’t ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on ...

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

but the tiny sparks made by crashing waves or waterfalls that jump-started life on this planet. "On early Earth, there were water sprays all over the place -- into crevices or against rocks ...