Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of NASA's Juno craft soaring above Jupiter's atmosphere. Jupiter's satellite Io is one of its largest moons.

Fresh lava looks like the last place anything could live, yet biologists are now finding microbial communities moving in almost as soon as the rock cools. Those hardy pioneers are not just a curiosity ...

Whether it is a forest regrowing from the ashes or a new island being colonized by the wind and rain, nature operates on a clock of constant renewal. Researchers at the University of Arizona have ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - A team from the University of Arizona has discovered that life can begin anew even on fresh lava following volcanic eruptions in Iceland. The researchers observed how tiny ...