The organization of life on Earth – from the tiniest flora to colossal fauna, from the oceans to the desert to the frozen ...

A new study, employing NASA's planetary modeling, predicts Earth's oxygen will vanish in roughly one billion years, much ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

Astronomers detected dimethyl sulfide (DMS) on exoplanet K2-18b, sparking excitement about potential extraterrestrial life.

A prevailing theory in the scientific community, known as the "RNA World" hypothesis, suggests that life may have originally ...

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

Hidden in every tenth of a degree of extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for ...

A simple rule that seems to govern how life is organized on Earth is described in a new study published in Nature Ecology & ...

Fresh analysis of records for more than 30,000 species now points to a single thread that stitches Earth's bioregions ...