How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Life in the deep biosphere is nothing short of miraculous. Temperatures can soar to over 120 degrees Celsius, crushing pressures build with every meter of depth, and oxygen is often scarce or ...

The deep-sea volcanoes beneath Earth’s oceans may offer vital clues in the search for alien life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

However, light that leaves our star also contains UVC radiation, which has a shorter wavelength than UVA or UVB light and ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

The organization of life on Earth follows a simple, hidden rule known as “core-to-transition organization.” Hypothesized by ...

In this episode, hosts Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick dive deep into the mysterious origins of all life on Earth—and the ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know.

As part of our summer series, Good Morning Tucson is taking you north to Biosphere 2. It's a 37 mile drive from the eastside ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...