The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

The study builds on previous research investigating different biosignature gases, including dimethyl sulfide, another ...

Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.

From 4.6 billion years ago when the Earth was red hot, the timeline illustrates the evolution of the first life forms through to plants photosynthesising, bacterial evolution, marine life ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

From weeping trees to teeth stronger than Kevlar, senior curator Dr Tom White sheds some light on a few of the fascinating, unnoticed ways the Moon shapes the course of life on Earth ... but they have ...