Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.
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 ...
Penn State researchers propose that Earth and life have evolved together in a way that is more typical of life-supporting ...
A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany are unraveling the mysteries of a bygone era. As part of ongoing studies, ...
Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore are headed back to Earth after nine months on the ISS – but their greatest ...
Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...
Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.
More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ... came the rise of more complex life, with the first appearance of marine creatures sporting armor, shells ...