When an asteroid slammed into what is now Lake Lappajärvi in Finland some 78 million years ago, it unleashed unimaginable ...

Tiny life forms adrift in alien skies might one day expose themselves through the faintest play of light. A new study ...

Scientists found that colorful pigments in Earth’s cloud microbes may help telescopes identify signs of life on distant ...

Researchers use lipid biomarkers to uncover how organisms survive in extreme ecosystems. A surprising variety of life exists within the ocean floor, much of it made up of microbes, tiny organisms ...

Researchers were able to take advantage of "an incredibly unique opportunity" to study the microbial life that rapidly colonized a short-lived island that formed in the South Pacific after a volcanic ...

The findings may redefine the known boundaries of life on Earth and offer a model for what microbial life might look like on Mars or other arid planets. Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of microbial life within a meteorite impact crater—revealing that life not ...

What can volcanic sulfur on ancient Mars teach scientists about whether microbial life might have existed? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of ...

Research and Education Hale at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa celebrated its 15th anniversary on Oct. 25, marking a decade and a half of cutting-edge discovery and sustainable design. The ...

November's Sky Above episode features a supermoon, meteor shower, and interstellar comet, with experts discussing these ...

At the core of all these theories is a simple fact: The area in the lunar South Pole region has conditions that could potentially sustain life. Yet there are some scientists who believe that when our ...