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

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

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

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

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

Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is visiting a home away from Earth that has seen continuous human presence ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

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 ...

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