By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its evolutionary purpose may be to deter mushroom-munching insects ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

Isar Aerospace plans to launch its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Spaceport in northern Norway today, during a window that opens ...

The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...