NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

In 2018, Roger Summons, Schlumberger Professor of Geobiology at MIT and head of the Summons Lab in MIT’s Department of Earth, led a team to study meltwater ponds on Antarctica’s McMurdo Ice Shelf.

Geobiology, the study of interactions between living organisms and the solid Earth, is characterized by fluid scientific borders allowing flexibility to ask questions unfettered by disciplinary ...

Geobiologists attempt to answer such questions as: when and under what conditions did life begin, how can we verify biogenicity in the geologic record, and what governs the relation between the living ...

The very first cells obtained their energy from geochemical reactions. LMU researchers have now managed to recreate this ancient metabolic process in their laboratory. Most likely, the earliest ...

The very first cells obtained their energy from geochemical reactions. LMU researchers have now managed to recreate this ancient metabolic process in their laboratory.

In 1983, the theoretical physicist Brandon Carter concluded that the time it took for humans to evolve on Earth — relative to the total lifespan of the Sun — suggests that our evolutionary origin was ...

A new study from Penn State challenges the long-held belief that intelligent life is rare, suggesting instead that it may be more probable than previously assumed. In 1961, astrophysicist Frank Drak e ...