How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, a surprising discovery has revealed a giant creature thriving in the planet's most extreme ...

In western India, strata of old rocks are providing a glimpse of what may have been a world of heat, a world of creeping ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ...

Palaeontologists reported some remarkable dinosaur fossils this year, including a Velociraptor relative, a dome-headed ...

The monster movie Guillermo del Toro calls “a great sci-fi thriller” and “the ‘Citizen Kane’ of giant insect films" is now ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

Scientific divers have navigated a series of treacherous dives more than 330 feet deep in an attempt to unravel the mysteries of deep ocean reefs. They’re finding new species — and evidence of both cl ...