A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

THE process of the slow luminous oxidation of phosphorus presents anomalies which ... but on reducing the pressure an explosion occurs.

Groundbreaking observations of a repeating explosion in space ... expected to also see signatures of highly energized sulfur, phosphorus, calcium and aluminum," Geballe said in a statement.

Phosphorus, a key ingredient for DNA and RNA ... “This would have really helped life flourish.” The result was an explosion in microbial activity. Once the atmosphere cleared and surface ...