PSI] Conditions on the early Earth may have become stable enough to sustain the chemistry associated with the origins of life around 4.33 billion years ago, according to new research […] ...

Cell Press] A tiny, single-celled organism can thrive at temperatures that would kill all other known complex life. In a study publishing September 22 in the Cell Press journal Cell, scientists ...

In the brine channels that thread through Arctic sea ice, it survives temperatures that would freeze most bacteria solid.

Analyses of detrital zircons from Antarctica show that its tectonics were dominated by Himalayan-style mountains ...

KAUST-led team has developed the AI tool Unify to help scientists compare similar cell types across distant species ...

How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real?

ESA] The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will return to Earth on 28 September, with flight controllers guiding the spacecraft close to our home planet to alter its speed and ...

In the study of the origin of life, the polymerization of amino acids into peptides in water faces significant thermodynamic barriers.

We experimentally investigate the chemical complexity induced by UV irradiation of pure C 2 H 2 ice and characterize both volatile and nonvolatile photoproducts. Experiments were performed with ...

[Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)] Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat reveal an Earth system ...

NASA]. It has been known since the 1970s when the Viking orbiters took pictures of Mars that there are large (i.e., several kilometers-thick) mounds of light-toned deposits within the central […] ...

There are roughly 200 confirmed impact structures on Earth, but geologists estimate that hundreds more lurk undiscovered.