Methane is one of the most powerful greenhouse gases, warming the planet far faster than carbon dioxide over the short term.

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

Across the coldest places on Earth, something quiet but powerful is happening beneath your feet and under the ice. As ...

Ancient microbes tied to our earliest ancestors could use oxygen, reshaping ideas about how complex life began on Earth.

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

An experiment on board the ISS tested the use of microorganisms to mine asteroids in the microgravity environment.

Learn more about the microbes that consume plastic and how they could one day help clean up our ...

China accelerates desert restoration: 3.5 billion-year-old microbes stabilize sand and protect ecosystems in months.

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment ...

Microorganisms aboard the International Space Station have extracted dozens of metals from actual asteroid fragments, a result that strengthens the case for biology-driven mining on the Moon, Mars, ...