Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

A trip to planets outside our solar system could tell scientists a lot — even if no extraterrestrial life is found ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth’s Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

"The exercise enabled us to estimate the number of terrestrial species of life on Earth, including all the numbers unknown to ...

Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...