A tiny salmon parasite has become the first animal proven to survive without oxygen, overturning long-held biology ...

Combining analytical chemistry with machine learning doubled the age of ancient rocks that can be examined for signs of ...

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Paleobiologists investigating Earth’s earliest life traditionally study tiny fossils or hardened structures made by ancient microbes. The oldest ones date to around 3.5 billion years ago. But the ...

Commentary: If there’s no Mars McDonald’s, then it probably stands to reason that there’s no life on Mars. At that point, what would aliens visit for?

Common moss spores survived nine months bolted to the outside of the International Space Station, paving the way toward space colonization.

In preparation for and as an input to the upcoming decadal surveys in astronomy and astrophysics and planetary science, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will appoint an ad ...

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh chemical evidence of Earth’s earliest life – concealed in 3.3-billion-year-old ...

Exploring one of science's most exciting frontiers, the book "Life in Space" bridges astrophysics and biology to uncover the conditions that make life possible—on Earth and beyond. Designed for ...