The surprising discovery of entities smaller than viruses raises profound questions about what life is and how it got started ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

A recent study presents a new way to understand life by describing it as a cascade of machines producing machines, spanning ...

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they are chiral, or handed. Like how your left glove fits only your left hand ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Space agencies and billionaires are still mostly focused on Mars. However, if life exists beyond the Earth but within the ...

The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...

The study, published by IMPACT-se, also showed that antisemitic and anti-Israel discourse is still the main tone present in ...

The genome of the yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae was finally synthesized and for the first time ever scientists have created ...