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

Life’s ultimate origin will never be known, but researchers are probing the possibilities—for Earth and elsewhere.

How did complex life survive when Earth was frozen over? Scientists say tiny meltwater ponds on ancient ice may have been the ...

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

During Earth's ancient Snowball periods, when the entire planet was wrapped in ice, life may have endured in tiny meltwater ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen ...

Scientists from MIT studied how organisms live in modern Antarctic meltwater ponds to predict how similar organisms would ...

A research team from Skoltech, the Institute of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Problems of Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other scientific organizations in Russia and the U.S ...

Seen under a microscope, these iron-rich tubes may be the oldest known fossils on the planet. Photograph Courtesy Matthew Dodd. This May Be the Oldest Known Sign of Life on Earth.

A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are ...