The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

After more than two decades of analysis, researchers from Montana State University have finally revealed how three microbes ...

The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it ...

MSU scientists studied microbes in Yellowstone hot springs to understand how life adapted to increasing oxygen levels.

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.