"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

"Matthew Evans has had a fascinating life, originally the restaurant critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, he became a chef, ...

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one: liquid water. However the red surface is carved out by ancient rivers and lakes, ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, which is believed to harbor a vast, hidden ocean beneath its icy surface.

MP Materials, which runs the only American rare earths mine, announced a new $500 million agreement with tech giant Apple on ...