Could microbes survive in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the moon? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

Scientists have spent decades genetically modifying the bacterium Escherichia coli and other microbes to convert carbon dioxide into useful biological products. Most methods require additional carbon ...

D-Wave Quantum Inc has deployed its hybrid approach to solve optimization problems and drug discovery hurdles in separate projects.

Given that microbes helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar ...

Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct ...

UC San Diego researchers have created a map of the microbes aboard the International Space Station; results could make space ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day.

THE UK has completed the build of its first-ever Mars rover, designed to search for signs of alien life on the Red Planet in 2030. It is a landmark feat for the UK, and will be the first ...

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

The post-mission recovery and medical teams rushed them to the Nasa Johnson Space Center in Houston, US. The astronauts need ...