Inhale iron, exhale rust.
Mars may have been habitable more than 4.4 billion years ago
The story of life on Mars — if there ever was such a thing — may have started much earlier than thought.
What is soil? Here’s the inside scoop
The Earth’s great recycle bin.
Robots and AI can help us better understand deep sea species, study reports.
We’re fishing for information in the deep seas.
Building blocks of life can spontaneously form in outer space
Biology — it may literally be out of this world.
Nuclear-powered ‘tunnelbot’ could probe the depths of Europa’s oceans
Europa’s almost as cold as your ex’s heart, just as frozen.
Mars may yet hold life in salty subsurface waters
Mars may be more life-friendly than we thought.
Fossil fats reveal the ‘oldest macroscopic animal’ that lived 558 million years ago
Hey, grandpa!
It Is Possible Jupiter Could Support Life, Scientists Say
The chances of it happening are pretty slim though.
Ancient volcanism shows our emissions can trigger a mass marine extinction
Ancient volcanism offers a glimpse into the future effects of climate change.
The Earth had continental crust much earlier than thought — potentially life, too
The Earth’s ‘young’ phase might have been much shorter than we assume.
What if we’re not the first advanced civilization on Earth — How would we know?
This is not about conspiracy theories, but a legitimate scientific concern.
Mass extinctions don’t come out of the blue — and we’re seeing some of the signs today
An incoming mass extinction isn’t as hard to spot as we’d believed.
Silicon-based life on Earth? Only artificially, so far — but maybe natural on other planets
A team of researchers forced bacteria to create carbon-silicon bonds, and their experiment showcases why life on our planet chose carbon.
Meteorites carrying both water and organic compounds point to an ocean world “seeding life” in the universe
Why spread your seed across the Earth when you can spread it across space?
What Curiosity found on Mars are probably just crystals — not fossils
This is likely not our first brush with alien life.
The earliest life forms could be these 3.5-billion-year-old microbes
The amazing discovery suggests that alien life might actually be common.
New evidence indicates that life on Earth emerged almost 4 billion years ago
It’s as old as we can possibly find.
New fossil proves there was life on Earth hundreds of millions of years earlier than we’ve though
Not your everyday find.
All the ingredients for alien life: NASA finds hydrogen spewing out of Saturn’s icy moon, likely propelled from hydro-thermal vents
Both Enceladus and Europa seem capable of supporting alien life, according to a major NASA announcement.
