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

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

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

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

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

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

Earth’s oceans cover roughly 70% of the surface. Beneath the mesmerizing surface, marine life is being captured by nets, traps and other human-made hazards. In the process of struggling to escape, ...

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

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