A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

In Greenland's icy expanse, scientists unearthed 3.7-billion-year-old stromatolite fossils, the oldest evidence of life on ...

In a nutshell Scientists engineered a self-sustaining system using cyanobacteria and fungi that can grow on Martian soil ...

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have found that certain deep-sea spiders are not predators or scavengers as once ...

During Earth's ancient Snowball periods, when the entire planet was wrapped in ice, life may have endured in tiny meltwater ...

Scientists from MIT studied how organisms live in modern Antarctic meltwater ponds to predict how similar organisms would ...

Currently, the oldest agreed-upon evidence for life on Earth comes from fossilized microbial mats, or stromatolites, in Australia’s Strelley Pool Chert (SN: 10/17/18).