A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

It's important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.