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

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 ...

"The exercise enabled us to 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 future work." With ...

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

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

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the extremophiles could potentially live on the Red Planet.

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 ...

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 ...