Rather than bacteria, the Earth BioGenome Project, or EBP, is aiming to sequence the genomes of individual eukaryotic creatures—basically, those that keep most of their DNA in a nut-like structure, or ...

It was the Australian physicist Brandon Carter who first popularized the notion that life on Earth was the result of a ...

At the moment, we cannot even estimate the probability for the entire sequence of steps to occur, so it is impossible to conclude whether the appearance of life on Earth was inevitable, or an ...

Alien life might look unlike anything we've ever seen on Earth. Trying to find evidence of these unknown organisms will require some creativity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...

As life evolved on Earth, it used and created minerals for exoskeletons and habitats. The hundred minerals present when life first formed have grown to about 5,000 today.

Life on Earth and its evolution may have been the result of lightning strikes activating and bringing together natural chemical elements, a new study from Harvard suggests. The scientific ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...

The research estimates that life on Earth will end around the year 1,000,002,021, when surface conditions become too extreme to support even the most resilient organisms.

Thankfully for us, all the Al-26 in our solar system decayed away very early on, leaving enough undifferentiated material to supply the Earth with the volatile compounds it needed to evolve life ...

It was the Australian physicist Brandon Carter who first popularized the notion that life on Earth was the result of a sequence of unlikely events, which he described as "hard steps" in a 1983 paper.