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

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 ...

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

The ocean naturally pulls in about a quarter of the carbon dioxide people produce. It's the planet’s largest carbon sink.

The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...

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 ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

A new study suggests Earth's oceans may have been green during the Archean eon, around 3.8 to 1.8 billion years ago. The ...

A new database compiling over 400 sightings of a mysterious ocean phenomenon known as ‘milky seas’ could help scientists soon ...

The new research, published recently in Nature, used numerical simulations to reconstruct the underwater light environment of ...

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