Known to possess a vast and salty ocean, the icy world was unlikely to have a seabed capable of aiding life, as it lacked the ...

Scientists have uncovered a "lost city" deep beneath the ocean's surface - but it's not the manmade marvel you might be expecting. Under the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, the deep-sea exploration ...

In a new book, astrophysicist Mario Livio describes how the existence of life on Earth can be traced back to an RNA-based “protocell.” The following is an excerpt from Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest ...

What kinds of life could exist in Saturn’s largest moon, Titan? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...