Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we ...

New research from the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Institute of Science Tokyo suggests iron-rich ecosystems played a ...

Microbes include bacteria, viruses, fungi, algae and archaea (single-celled microorganisms with a bacteria-like structure).

Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...

According to a new study by Yale researchers published in Nature, trees host diverse and unique microbial communities, ...

Unlocking the basic science of microbes, especially those that live in extreme environments, could help us find life elsewhere in the universe.

It's tiny and needy, but is it alive? That's a question prompted by recent research that highlights a surprisingly complex part of biology. The organism in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum ...

It may be small, its habitat harsh, but a newly discovered single-celled microbe leads the hottest existence known to science. Its discoverers have preliminarily named the roughly micron-wide speck ...