A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...
Evidence of human life in the Gobi Desert 8,000 years ago has been found, thanks to the analysis of an ancient dry lake in ...
ISS research over 25 years shows how humans adapt biologically, medically, and technologically to space, informing future missions and scientific understanding of life beyond Earth.
Asking ‘what is life?’ is a good way to start arguments in science. As a recent informal poll suggests, no two individuals ...
Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...
New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...
It's not news, although it's something that will happen many years from now: life on Earth has an expiration date. According to different research and studies, there will be no tra ...
Commentary: Earth has been called the “Goldilocks planet" because it is positioned just the right distance for life to evolve ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.
Evidence is mounting that the same basic chemistry that made Earth habitable is unfolding, or once unfolded, on Mars. From ...
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery about how dust forms in some of the ...
There are “costs of life” that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...