Have you ever thought about what would happen if all life in the ocean disappeared? A recent study explores this extreme ...

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Famed for playing a pivotal role in inspiring Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, this ethereal destination plays home to ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

The prebiotic Earth was a harsh and unstable environment, characterized by intense heat, active volcanoes and little ...

The second component is something known as the Great Oxidation Event – when cyanobacteria emerged in such great quantities ...

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some ...

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system ... in an alien planet's atmosphere that on Earth are only produced by living organisms.

Centuries of speculation and fantasising about life out there ... had visited Earth then they have managed to stay elusive so far and there is no reason why they should reveal themselves now.

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, the astronomers concluded that the most probable match was a gas that, on ...

A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible ... or DMDS. On Earth, both molecules are only produced by microbial life, typically marine ...