Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A discovery ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Most people I meet are unaware of their skin type or what products to use, so they rely on recommendations from neighbors, ...

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one — liquid ...

Their presence means that icy materials floating in space might survive even during the wild, chaotic process of planet formation. What could it mean for life beyond Earth?

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

Earth’s oceans cover roughly 70% of the surface. Beneath the mesmerizing surface, marine life is being captured by nets, traps and other human-made hazards. In the process of struggling to escape, ...