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Earth's plant life may persist for approximately 1.8 billion more years. The Sun's increasing brightness will gradually make ...

Using complex climate models, researchers have pinned down the point at which life will no longer be able to survive on Earth ...

Life on Earth is complex and hard to understand, but new research may have finally given us a much-needed glimpse into the patterns that life follows as it spreads across our planet. According to a ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don't know what alien life might look like?

(Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) If potted plants always seem to die under your care, you can take solace in ...

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe – but that might take longer than we thought ...

One debate about the origin of life on Earth concerns whether it formed around deep-sea hydrothermal vents or in scars left behind by an asteroid impact. A new review article analyzes recent research ...

A new study suggests spacecraft exhaust could quickly contaminate the moon's most scientifically valuable regions, ...

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...