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

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.

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

NASA is focused on the moon as a crucial stepping stone for future deep space exploration. Earth's moon is a 4.5-billion-year ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Most people I meet are unaware of their skin type or what products to use, so they rely on recommendations from neighbors, ...

What can the climate history of Mars teach scientists about whether the Red Planet once had the ingredients for life as we ...

Jadarite—commonly known as kryptonite due to its chemical similarity to the mineral bane of Superman—has only every been found in a deposit in northern Serbia. Now, scientists have deciphered the ...

Their presence means that icy materials floating in space might survive even during the wild, chaotic process of planet formation. What could it mean for life beyond Earth?

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