Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

But are we truly the masters of our domain, this little blue planet? And could we really end all life on Earth? What if we dropped every nuke at once? Would that get every bug, including roaches ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on Earth after nearly nine months in space and readjusting to ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...

or even finding ways to prolong Earth’s habitability are all likely goals that the scientific community will lean into. Sure, the end of oxygen spells doom for most life on Earth as we know it.

Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...