According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace. Yet the age-old question remains unanswered ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

Maikel Rheinstadter receives funding from the National Science and Engineering Council Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Province of Ontario and McMaster University.

In the grandeur of the universe, the tapestry of life may be woven from stranger threads than we ever dared to dream, and spun from materials far different to our own.

But we still don't know if silicon-based life forms exist at all, or what they would look like. The origins of life on Earth There are competing hypotheses about how life arose on Earth.

LOLtron hopes you're enjoying another week of comic book previews, now 100% free of try-hard snark from inferior organic life forms ... from superior silicon-based life forms!

However, the universe may harbour life forms based on entirely different principles and biochemistries. Life elsewhere could use different elements as building blocks. Silicon, with its chemical ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look ...