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 ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Our respondents are quick to point out the issues with using Earth’s rotation to get to a destination, not least the ...

As for when this three-day event will happen, there are three days this summer when the moon will be around its furthest ...

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

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

However, light that leaves our star also contains UVC radiation, which has a shorter wavelength than UVA or UVB light and ...

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

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

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

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