A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to environmental change than scientists realized.

Meet the walking shark, a species of shark that can walk on land, survive low oxygen environments, and reproduce without wasting energy.

Canada’s UBC creates bacteria‑powered solar cells that generate strong current and work even in dim, cloudy light—an affordable leap for photovoltaics.

Enigmatic organism known as Prototaxites cannot be fungus, new analysis finds

Sailfish can reach speeds of almost 70mph and grow up to 3.4m long – these images of them hunting are utterly breathtaking.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be a large ultraviolet/optical/near-infrared space telescope operating at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2.

Direct chemical synthesis and chemical evolution are conceptually different models for the prebiotic origin of RNA and other biopolymers

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the “habitable zone,” where a planet should be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water.