How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

The "unintentional electromagnetic leakage" from airport radars and military radar systems can be "detectable across ...

"Our work supports both the scientific quest to answer the question 'Are we alone?' and practical efforts to manage the ...

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

One of humanity's most incessant searches in recent times is for evidence of extraterrestrial life, or, in other words, the ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...

Such changes would make it difficult for life as we know it to survive on Earth. The increased heat and radiation would ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

Clock time is also getting shorter, kind of. Broadly speaking, Earth takes roughly 24 hours to spin around on its axis. Ocean ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...