At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s ...

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Sulfur, an essential element of life, exists in many forms. Your nose would recognize it easily in the form of hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S), with its distinctive rotten egg smell. Other forms of sulfur ...

Self-assembling carbon microstructures created in a lab by University of Colorado Boulder researchers could provide new clues – and new cautions – in efforts to identify microbial life preserved in ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A sulfur-loving microbe in the Canadian arctic could draw a blueprint for scientists searching for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. "Ultimately when we go to Europa, we'll want to ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

An international team of scientists led by microbiologists Marc Mussmann and Alexander Loy from the University of Vienna has discovered a new microbial metabolism: so-called MISO bacteria "breathe" ...