By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Researchers have discovered that chemical reactions in underwater hydrothermal vents could have produced the necessary ingredients for life on Earth.

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

Hydrogen cyanide, a toxic chemical, may have helped spark the chemistry that led to life. When frozen, it forms crystals with ...

Microorganisms live in biofilms - the equivalent of microbial "cities"- everywhere on Earth. These city-like structures protect and house microbial communities and play essential roles in enabling ...

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

Climate change is usually associated with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide, but our planet's surface also plays a major ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ocean of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons and a leading candidate for ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...