About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

A groundbreaking new study of microbes underground is challenging everything we thought we knew about extreme environments.

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In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...

Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it ... never found as a free element on Earth, but instead is always bound up ...

Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the ...

Scientists think it's possible that life cells from Earth could've been transferred to Venus, thanks to asteroid impacts over ...

Published in the Journal of Astrobiology, the paper does not argue that there was a technologically advanced species long ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...