Moderator Nicole Sawyer (from left) discussed the role of private businesses and education institutions on space exploration ...

Researchers propose that tiny mineral nanoparticles may have been the hidden engines that transformed Earth’s early chemistry ...

Well-known microbes that grow on our crops, our gardens, even our skin have been found thriving at two to three times the ...

Scientists suggest Earth's earliest animals reproduced asexually, slowing evolution and delaying the biodiversity boom that ...

Despite its incredible diversity, there is a universal tie between all life on Earth, regardless of species. This unifying ...

A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the ...

A new model increases the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, upending the decades-old “hard steps” theory that intelligent life was an incredibly improbable event on Earth. Are ...

Scientists found more than 7,000 microbes in the Mariana Trench, revealing unexpected biodiversity in Earth's deepest ocean ...

For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth's atmosphere won't always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists predict that Earth will eventually undergo a drastic atmospheric shift—one ...