"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

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

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

MP Materials, which runs the only American rare earths mine, announced a new $500 million agreement with tech giant Apple on ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Earth’s oceans cover roughly 70% of the surface. Beneath the mesmerizing surface, marine life is being captured by nets, traps and other human-made hazards. In the process of struggling to escape, ...

A recent study reveals that 'space ice', contrary to previous beliefs, contains tiny crystals and is not entirely disordered ...