Scientists are turning to chemical modeling to determine whether icy moons in our solar system have what it takes to host ...

Recent findings from researchers at UCLA and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are shaking up our understanding of life’s ...

Lava tubes on Earth have been studied for signs of ancient microbial life, providing a model for searching for life in similar structures on Mars. A comprehensive study of lava tubes—caves formed by c ...

The powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the Dragonfly spacecraft on a multi-year journey to Saturn’s largest moon Titan.

"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...

Could life on Earth have taken a completely different form, based on the “handedness” of its chemical? A new study by ...

When Vikings landed on Lindisfarne’s shores in 793, slaughtering the local English populace and pillaging the monastery of ...

Plastics pollution exacerbates the impacts of all [nine] planetary boundaries,” warns a report published this month in the ...

Frank Rubio winces when he discusses the emotional hardship of being confined for more than in a year in a vessel orbiting ...

Curtin University scientists discover 4.45-billion-year-old evidence of water activity on Mars, hinting at early habitability ...

This week, amidst headlines about elections and Christmas light-ups, you may have overlooked a quieter milestone: the 40th ...

The word alien comes from the Latin word 'aliēnus', which means "not one's own, of others, foreign, strange". It is derived ...