Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms ...

Scientists discovered a previously hidden ecosystem - lagoons in Argentina's Puna de Atacama harbors microbial communities, known as stromatolites, that could be good examples of the earlier form of ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

When scientists talk about Earth’s history, they often mention huge numbers– billions of years, shifting continents, and ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Life on Earth probably began in warm, underwater 'chemical gardens', rich in hydrogen and iron. Researchers from Germany have ...

Giant viruses, like the ones found in Yellowstone's hot springs, have been turning up in many odd corners of the planet.

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...