Life

The evolution of tree roots nearly ended life on Earth

In the war between plants and animals, plants fired the first shot and it was a doozy.

By Cassidy Ward | 

2 months ago

The building blocks for RNA-based life have been found… in the center of the Milky Way

Did life here begin out there? Or maybe its complex ingredients?

By Phil Plait | 

6 months ago

Could Engineers have created life on Earth? The science behind 'Prometheus'

Are we really all interstellar stowaways?

By Cassidy Ward | 

8 months ago

How the first life-forms on Earth could have spawned from something not alive

You might be the result of a chemical reaction that happened billions of years ago.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

8 months ago

Which exomoons could possibly be crawling with life?

If some moons in our solar system might be habitable, then...

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

8 months ago

Are alien oceans too freezing for life-forms?

You're about to plunge into uncharted waters.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

8 months ago

Turns out the fountain of youth was hiding in raw sea squirts this whole time

Okay, but why don't pizza and potato chips reverse aging. It's unfair!

By Cassidy Ward | 

8 months ago

Are we the aliens? Meteorites might have brought the stuff in our genes to Earth

It came from outer space. 

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

9 months ago

Life-forms on Earth probably emerged way earlier than we thought

Like, 300 million years earlier.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

9 months ago

Europa's 'chaos terrains' deliver Earth-level oxygen to the ocean below

It's like a bunch of frozen snorkels helping Europan aliens to breathe.

By Cassidy Ward | 

10 months ago