Deep within the surface of the earth lies a gargantuan amount of carbon in the form of various types of microbial life, which hangs onto life in environments with scarce nutrients and extreme ...

A science expedition in 2016 revealed a subsurface habitat in which microbes were found living at temperatures approaching 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Now, a follow-up study reveals how this remarkable ...

About 20 years ago, the late Thomas Gold, in his landmark concept paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, postulated that a "deep, hot ...

Miles below us, deep within Earth's crust, life is astir. Organisms there are not the large creatures typically envisioned when thinking of life. Instead, thriving there are microbes, the smallest and ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As a kid growing up I learned that all Earth ...

Deep beneath Yellowstone’s famous geysers, a hidden world of microbes and magma is responding to earthquakes in ways scientists are only now beginning to see clearly. Using artificial intelligence to ...

The microbial biosphere at the Earth’s surface has long been thought to lack dispersal barriers. The extent to which this is true in the subsurface biosphere remains to be tested. Taking into account ...

If you added up all the microbes living deep below Earth’s surface, the amount of biomass would outweigh all life within our oceans. But because this abundant life is so difficult to reach, it is ...

Life on Earth arose at least 3.5 billion years ago, but precisely where it originated remains a mystery. Conventional scientific wisdom has long suggested a warm, freshwater pond as a potential ...