Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

Could Earth’s very first insects have arrived on ancient meteorites? Some scientists believe the building blocks of insect ...

What is equally astonishing, if one thinks of it deeply, is how closely the “Big Bang” theory resembles the creationist ...

Jayant Narlikar, a renowned Indian scientist, passed away. He was famous for his work in cosmology. Narlikar was also known ...

This supports the panspermia theory, which proposes that life’s ingredients came from space. Could meteorites have jump-started life on Earth? [meteorites] [DNA origins] [space rocks ...

Focusing on the former, one of the most popular theories is the concept of “panspermia”—that ancient ... However, there’s another theory that doesn’t rely on some extraterrestrial ...

A fringe theory called "panspermia" suggests that lifeforms can spread to new planets by hitching rides on meteors. New research lays out a roadmap for finding where these hypothetical ...

Panspermia is a theory that the building blocks of life exist throughout the galaxy and only need to find a fertile environment to grow (i.e. microbe-carrying asteroids traveling crashing on Earth ...

In a recent paper, a team of researchers considered the implications of ISOs being responsible for panspermia—the theory that the seeds of life exist throughout the universe and are distributed ...