A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive ...

SAR11 bacteria dominate the world’s oceans by being incredibly efficient, shedding genes to survive in nutrient-poor waters.

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

Scientists with expertise in geophysics at Washington State University have developed an alternative pathway for the ...

Life on Earth has long been understood to run on two main energy sources. One comes from sunlight, captured by photosynthesis. The other comes from chemical reactions, such as microbes feeding on ...

A new book by a Cambridge engineer and an Oxford theologian argues that our faith in technology to solve the climate crisis ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

The curious minds at What If explore a world where Earth was shaped like a football instead of a sphere, examining the dramatic effects on gravity, climate, and life.

In high enough doses, hydrogen cyanide can kill an adult human in minutes, but the chemical may be the reason why we’re here in the first place.

The initiative uses microgravity and extreme conditions to speed up medical discoveries and turn them into startups.

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.