This discovery challenges our understanding of Earth’s early history and could shed light on the origins of life.

When scientists look to the skies for clues about life's origins, water is one of the first things they seek. Life, as it's ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

Lane Bess, a tech investor and CEO, has now gone to space twice on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. Each time he said it reminded him ...

Sunita Williams is a distinguished American astronaut and retired U.S. Navy officer, known for her record-setting spacewalks ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Mysuru: Prof. N. Usha Rani, a retired faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Mysore (UoM), has given a ...

In this week's Short Wave roundup, Berly McCoy and Regina Barber talk about the origins of life on Earth, what bird brains illuminate about human speech and how ADHD is mischaracterized on TikTok.

In the vast and arid landscapes of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, a team of researchers has identified a series of peculiar structures in marble and limestone formations, whose origin does not seem ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.