In Nepal’s Upper Mustang, near the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, life unfolds in some of the thinnest air on Earth.

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event. Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been ...

Dr Peter Verheyen, Sola Society & Academy, Vienna University, explains the intriguing areas of information and entropy, plus ...

A machine-learning-enhanced approach to chemical analysis is drastically expanding the chemical record of life on Earth, and ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

The study showed that Enceldus’ conditions hold the most promise for sustaining life. The research team predicts that the ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an ...

For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are ...