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Researchers found that earthquake-driven rock fractures can power deep-Earth life by splitting water into energy-rich compounds. Chinese scientists have recently questioned the long-standing idea that ...

The bold question-askers at What If follow one woman’s experience living in Biosphere 2, Earth's experimental twin.

In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet.

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Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA David Dr. Grinspoon joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions ...

The United Nations’s top court announced Wednesday that if countries fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine ...