A new study brings scientists closer to uncovering how life began on Earth.

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have found that Earth's atmosphere experienced three major oxygen surges over the past 2 ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 ...

A new study reveals Earth's essential features formed within its first 100 million years, challenging long-held theories.

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...

From the mighty blue whale to the humble baker's yeast, scientists have barely begun to understand the vast genetic diversity ...

How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a pair of scientists from the Southwest Research ...

Ocean microbes reveal how shedding genes drives survival and symbiosis, offering rare snapshots of evolution in progress.