If life exists on other planets, it needs to be adaptable to extreme environments. To get a clue of what it might look like, ...

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...

Searching for life on other celestial bodies, or at the very least the necessary components to support it, has been ...

A new study suggests the iron oxide responsible for the red planet's distinctive hue is ferrihydrite, pointing to the bygone ...

For a long time, scientists believed that early life on Earth struggled due to a lack of usable nitrogen. This new discovery ...

Scientists discover a worm in Siberia that has been frozen for 46,000 years and is brought back to life in a laboratory.

An international team of scientists has experimentally observed an unusual form of ice that could naturally occur on distant ...

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

Scientists found fossil-like traces in gypsum, suggesting ancient microbial life may have existed on Mars billions of years ...