One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

"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 ...

A study published recently in Joule reveals that the technology can successfully extract water from soil samples and convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuel chemicals.

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

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

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

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

NASA is focused on the moon as a crucial stepping stone for future deep space exploration. Earth's moon is a 4.5-billion-year ...

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

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new ...