In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

By analyzing data from NASA and the European Space Agency's Webb Space Telescope, the researchers found evidence of dimethyl ...

A common mineral, α-alumina, found abundantly in Earth's crust, may have played a critical role in initiating the chemical ...

Astronomers may have found the strongest hint of life beyond Earth thanks to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Schrödinger later revised his view – around the 1950s – suggesting that life depends on free energy. Free energy is the energy that drives chemical reactions in living things. This marked a shift from ...

If they’re right, complex and intelligent life should be widespread. In this new view, biological evolution appears not as a unique process that gave rise to a qualitatively distinct form of matter — ...

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...

Researchers have demonstrated a novel way to inscribe microscopic patterns on living organisms, using the resilient tardigrade ... showing that this method can potentially extend to bacteria and other ...