If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

The region - called Acidalia Planitia - contains just the right levels of water, heat and energy in its soil for alien bacteria to thrive. The next step is to drill into the Martian surface to see ...

That doesn't necessarily mean asteroids are flying around with DNA and small alien bacteria. However, that early pre-life chemistry may have started on an asteroid in space before it crashed into ...

Some bacteria deploy tiny spearguns to retaliate against rival attacks. Researchers mimicked attacks by poking bacteria with an ultra-sharp tip. Using this approach, they have uncovered that bacteria ...