Nitrospirota is an archaeal phylum that’s particularly common in the terrestrial subsurface. Some species of nitrospirota are ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun's energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...

A groundbreaking survey in Nature Astronomy reveals a surprising consensus among scientists: the majority believe that alien ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4 percent agreement, and 58.2 ...

When we turn to “complex” extraterrestrial life or “intelligent” aliens, our results were 67.4% agreement, and 58.2% ...

As Kep1er celebrate three years, they speak with NME about what has kept them united, redefining themselves and more.

“Had the Mariner 4 vehicle passed the same distance from the Earth that it did from Mars (6,000 miles) and obtained 22 comparable photographs,” Sagan declared, “no sign of life on our planet ...

so that'd likely be the case on other worlds if the life that exists there is similar to life as we know it. "These arid, dry planets, with significantly less than one Earth's ocean of water may ...