The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

Life on Earth extends far beyond the vibrant rainforests and sunlit coral reefs. Deep below the surface, an extraordinary ...

In the journal Nature Communications, Montana State University scientists in the College of Agriculture highlight fresh ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists today.

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Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking ... including cave-adapted species like crickets and spiders and microbial colonies found nowhere else in the world. Lava tubes also hold ...

Scientists have uncovered a vast underground biosphere filled with microbial life thriving miles beneath the Earth's surface—a discovery that defies expectations and redefines our understanding of ...

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...

Jan. 30, 2025 — Increased levels of Streptococcus anginosus, a common type of bacteria that usually lives in the mouth and gut, was found in the gut of recent ...