Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

The red brick exterior with its classic storefront windows gives off that quintessential small-town Pennsylvania charm. A wooden bench and barrel planters outside invite you to sit a spell, maybe ...

Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a groundbreaking finding about rocky exoplanets that seem inhospitable due to their volcanic activity. Many of these planets, which display ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Scientists found low-density amorphous ice in space isn’t fully random - it hides tiny crystals, reshaping our understanding ...

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

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

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