Microscopic Life Is Abundant Miles Below The Surface And The Microbes That Are Responsible Have Persisted For A 100 Million ...

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...

Studying life in the ocean is never without its challenges, while some species can be studied via drone, or by opportunistic ...

A revolutionary new satellite that will provide an unprecedented look at Earth’s microscopic marine life and tiny atmospheric particles has launched. The NASA PACE, or Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ...

The origin of life on Earth remains a mystery, but scientists are slowly putting together genetic puzzle pieces to learn more about how the first life on Earth lived, between 2.5 and 4 billion ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A patchwork of hexagonal cracks discovered on the surface of Mars could hint at a crucial cycle that may have once supported the emergence of microscopic life. Though Mars is a harsh, ...

More than eight times the mass of Earth and 2.5 times as big, K2-18b is rare among the roughly 6,000 exoplanets discovered so far in that it orbits its star in a habitable or "goldilocks" zone.

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

Now, a new study in Nature Astronomy, based on analysis of microscopic grains of the asteroid Ryugu, brought back to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft in 2020, provides more evidence that ...

A global ocean color shift is underway, with greener waters near the poles and bluer seas in the tropics, impacting many marine ecosystems.