A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

New research suggests that the origins of life may be tied not only to deep-sea hydrothermal vents but also to environments ...

At first sight, stromatolites may seem unremarkable. The stromatolite formations found in Shark Bay, Western Australia, do ...

Organic compounds found in a Martian crater contain building blocks of life, according to a new study.

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That line, attributed to Richard ...

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry—but it's also an amazing math problem. At least, that's how Varun Varanasi viewed it when he was a Yale ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden partnership between ancient microbes that may explain how complex life first evolved on Earth.

Hidden within ancient microbial structures, scientists have uncovered a partnership that may mirror one of life’s most ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has spent more than 13 years exploring the 3.5-billion-year-old Gale crater, slowly climbing a ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu (Shark Bay). To the untrained eye they look like a collection of rocks and ...

Older adults who experienced childhood sexual abuse may face a higher risk of cancer decades later, according to a new study.