Montana State University has long been a hub for research on the many unique features of nearby Yellowstone National Park, ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.

Macalady, Adam Frank, and Jason T. Wright is reassessing the “hard steps” model by taking a critical look several of its core assumptions with a view rooted in historical geobiology. “This is a ...

The research team, which uniquely combined expertise from astrophysics and geobiology, presents compelling evidence for a radically different explanation. Instead of requiring an incredibly lucky ...