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

Research suggests that calcium may have played a key role in guiding the development of a specific molecular handedness in primitive polyesters and early biomolecules. A new study from the Earth-Life ...

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

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

Now, new research published March 14 in the journal Science Advances suggests that fizzes ... required to facilitate some of the reactions on early Earth that led to the origin of life,” said ...

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 ...

This new simulation acts like a global ... estimate the number of terrestrial species of life on Earth, including all the numbers unknown to science, but it has great potential beyond this in ...