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

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed ...

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic volcanic activity in modern-day Siberia, which ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Scientists analyzed a sample, which likely contained fatty acids, that transformed into alkanes during the heating process ...

Earth was reeling from cataclysmic volcanic activity in modern-day Siberia, which ushered in intense global warming, oxygen depletion, and ocean acidification that killed most marine organisms 252 ...

For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red ...

The extinction ended up erasing about 80-90% of marine species and approximately 70% of land-based vertebrate families, ...

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 ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars. As per Guardian, these compounds were detected in a 3.7-billion-year-old rock sample from Yellowknife Bay, an ...