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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

If you're an animal enthusiast, you probably know that the vast majority of animals prefer not to spend their lives in motion ...

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

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

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and scientists are finally uncovering why. A NASA-led study reveals a striking ...