Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published ...

As Mario Livio and Jack Szostak point out in “Is Earth Exceptional? The Quest for Cosmic Life,” the experiment also created ...

However, light that leaves our star also contains UVC radiation, which has a shorter wavelength than UVA or UVB light and ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

The organization of life on Earth follows a simple, hidden rule known as “core-to-transition organization.” Hypothesized by biogeographers for centuries, a new study finally finds empirical evidence ...

The pH scale is a measure of how acidic or alkaline something is, 1 being highly acidic, 14 being highly alkaline, and 7 ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million years.

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Paint companies such as Behr and Benjamin Moore similarly named warm earth tones as their colors of the year — Rumors, a deep ruby red, and plum-brown Cinnamon Slate respectively — bringing ...

In collaboration with a Japanese university, NASA researchers used supercomputers to predict when life will no longer be possible on Earth.