How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was in Ranchester, Wyoming, on Friday for the ribbon cutting to open the first U.S. rare ...

The organization of life on Earth follows a simple, hidden rule known as “core-to-transition organization.” Hypothesized by ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

In this episode, hosts Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick dive deep into the mysterious origins of all life on Earth—and the ...

One of humanity's most incessant searches in recent times is for evidence of extraterrestrial life, or, in other words, the ...

Russell “Rusty” Schweickart was among the first astronauts in space and the first to pilot the lunar module during the Apollo ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...