A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

Scientists are cataloging and analyzing the first samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover while the agency weighs its ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Chile, dubbed ATLAS, came across the space rock while observing the ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it ...

In turn, that will lead to potentially devastating impacts for all life on Earth. Professor Stroeve says: ‘Summer sea ice for sure will be gone well before 2100 but there will be several months ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...

A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...