Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Scientists have discovered phosphorus on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn, NASA said Wednesday. The element, which is essential to planetary habitability, had never before been detected ...

Phosphorus, element No. 15 on the periodic table, was first isolated by Henning Brandt in Hamburg in 1669. An alchemist unsuccessfully groping his way toward creating gold, ...

For the first time, phosphorus — the rarest of six elements upon which life as we know it depends — has been found in a tiny ocean-bearing moon in our solar system.

The ocean inside Saturn's moon Enceladus may be enriched with phosphorus, an important element for life as we know it, new research reveals. Phosphorus is a vital component of life's biochemistry.

The exceedingly rare element is one of six that are absolutely essential to life. (The others are carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and sulfur, which are more plentiful than phosphorus).

Phosphorus, element No. 15 on the periodic table, was first isolated by Henning Brandt in Hamburg in 1669. An alchemist unsuccessfully groping his way toward creating gold, ...

Scientists at Clemson University have joined a national research effort focused on developing solutions that will make the use of phosphorus — a finite element essential to food production — ...