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 ...

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

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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission has delivered a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Earth and it has been found to contain ...

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