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

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

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

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

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.

"Matthew Evans has had a fascinating life, originally the restaurant critic for the Sydney Morning Herald, he became a chef, ...

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

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

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise.

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do that, scientists need untouched samples—material that hasn’t been ...

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

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, ...