A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...
Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...
The key idea behind our framework is that life produces molecules with purpose, while nonliving chemistry does not. Cells ...
Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...
Scientists have known that Mars is rich in strange chemicals, especially chlorine-based compounds found by orbiters, rovers, ...
Researchers find that microbes on tree bark can alter greenhouse and toxic gases, shaping climate and air quality beyond ...
If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...
James Dyke is an associate professor of earth system science and assistant director of the Global Systems Institute at the ...
A study has cast doubt on the idea that Jupiter's moon Europa, where NASA has sent a spacecraft, could have conditions to ...
These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to ...
Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ago.