A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.

They are very tiny, but they are a key source of information when it comes to Earth's evolutionary history: pollen grains are ...

Following the release of today's trailer, we have the first official key art for Marvel's Ironheart Disney+ series along with ...

Its detection, if confirmed, would be extraordinary — a candidate biosignature, and possibly the first time a molecule associated with life has been seen beyond Earth. But here is where scientific ...

This aligns with fossil evidence, where some geological deposits of such minerals from the early history of Earth contain fossil traces of the first microbial life. The researchers conclude from ...

Scientists say a massive meteorite struck north-west Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought - and may have influenced early life on Earth. The meteorite, which created a layer of ...

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science Johnson agrees that a tenure-clock extension probably won’t solve the problem. “I don’t know how we could still meet the ...

We're exploring the biochemical foundations of life. Without understanding how things work, we can’t fix them when they’re broken. In this day of modern diseases, this is critical. Fundamental science ...

A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than initially believed. New research from Curtin University in Australia analyzed ...

The craft successfully reached Earth's "parking orbit", but Soviet scientists failed to launch the probe into its Venusian trajectory. It then broke into four pieces, two of which fell onto New ...