Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have ...

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About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a ...

These early conditions lacked oxygen, the critical element needed to form water ... of finding life elsewhere. Dr. Whalen ...

However, there might be subtle signs once in a while, that this is not your first life on earth. Here they are... Remember the sudden urge of emotions you feel once in a while - happy, sad or just ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA.

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates vanished around 252 ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the ...