Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore are headed back to Earth after nine months on the ISS – but their greatest ...

An Oxford academic has theorized about what might happen if humans were to go extinct and reveals which species could take ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...

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On Earth, such reactions are kicked off by microbes. Although these reactions could have taken place without life if the rock were heated significantly, Hurowitz and his colleagues do not think ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A study suggests that this organism likely lived on ...

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

The Lost City, found in 2000 near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, is a deep-sea ecosystem with towering limestone formations resembling underwater cathedrals.