On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany are unraveling the mysteries of a bygone era. As part of ongoing studies, ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

Penn State researchers propose that Earth and life have evolved together in a way that is more typical of life-supporting ...

Its titanic glaciers played a role in the evolution of complex life. A recent study reveals how these ice giants transformed the chemistry of the oceans, paving the way for the biodiversity we ...

"These findings highlight the deep connections between Earth's geology, climate, and the evolution of life itself.” The planet experienced at least two "extreme global glaciations" during the ...

If the evolution of humanlike life was more probable than the hard-steps model predicts, then researchers are more likely to find evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence in the future.