Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

The Last of Us Season 2 depicts a threatening fungus that weaves together life forms through unexpected connections. Within its gameplay, the game depicts a harmful plant-life organism that connects ...

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the ...

Depending on your definition, the Earth features many "biggest" living things. Today we're looking at where they stack up ...

For Nasa astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, it was all of the above. They recently returned to earth after an unexpected nine month stay in space, and have spoken about how they are ...

This trumpet-shaped organism is among the largest unicellular organisms ... led to the eventual evolution of multicellular life on Earth. And the new findings spotlight the role played by physical ...

Could these fragments have belonged to an entirely different organism? Without direct evidence ... Check us out on EarthSnap, a free app brought to you by Eric Ralls and Earth.com.

It was the largest German rocket since V-2, the Nazi-era rocket that has often been described as having launched the space age and was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile.

Scottish researchers have cast doubt on the idea of ancient life on Earth. They have studied a strange organism called prototaxites and concluded that it does not belong to any previously known group.

The NASA Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic ... from ancient organisms,” Horgan said. Dr. Ben K.D. Pearce, assistant professor in Purdue’s department of Earth, atmospheric ...

Earth’s oceans may not have always been as ... emerged around 4 billion years ago as some of the first organisms to perform oxygenic photosynthesis. While modern plants use chlorophylls for ...

All life forms that exist and have ever existed on Earth are traditionally classified into three ... «We report that Prototaxites taiti was the largest organism in the Rainier ecosystem, and its ...