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

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

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

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

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.

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

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 ...

Early microbial exposures from maternal microbes, milk components, and the environment shape infant gut development and ...

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 ...

As flesh-eating bacteria cases rise across the U.S., an Alabama woman is sharing her story of surviving Vibrio and the year-long recovery ahead.