Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

Neutral theory describes how many species ... "The exercise enabled us to estimate the number of terrestrial species of life on Earth, including all the numbers unknown to science, but it has ...

New simulation suggests millions of undiscovered terrestrial species, revealing hidden patterns in biodiversity and animal evolution.

Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, though with a bit less scenery-chewing than that classic film scene. But where did that organic ...

Earth is now in a neutral setting in the El Nino Southern Oscillation cycle, which is generally the most benign of the three states that help influence hurricane formation, droughts, floods and global ...

A group of scientists, working alongside NASA and researchers from Tōhō University in Japan, has determined a staggering timeline for the complete extinction of all life on Earth. According to ...

"A key novelty of this study was that we plugged together the Madingley model and neutral theory for the ... the number of terrestrial species of life on Earth, including all the numbers unknown ...