South Africa is home to some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, contained in rocky, often layered outcroppings called ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

With a new generation of fast and affordable gene sequencers, researchers are better equipped than ever to tackle Earth’s ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Some plants produce heat, which has long puzzled botanists. But a new study suggests that infrared radiation is an ancient ...