Could life exist around our nearest stellar neighbors? Led by the University of Sydney and supported by the Breakthrough Initiatives,...
Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests....
A massive asteroid will whiz past the Earth on Saturday, but hold any thoughts of disaster movies. Though NASA defines...
After decades of uncertainty, researchers have confirmed the existence of lunar carbon dioxide cold traps that could potentially contain solid...
After decades of uncertainty, researchers have confirmed the existence of lunar carbon dioxide cold traps that could potentially contain solid...
Volatile elements, such as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur (S), are of profound importance for the formation, the differentiation and...
Far below you lies a sphere of solid iron and nickel about as wide as the broadest part of Texas:...
There are a lot of unknowns when it comes to human beings living off-world. After all, our species has never...
Around 467 million years ago, something strange happened to our planet. The trilobites, brachiopods, and conodonts that thrived in Earth’s...
An international team of scientists, using the ground-based Gemini Observatory telescope in Chile, is the first to directly measure the...
A new study shows how the chemicals in an exoplanet’s atmosphere can, in some cases, reveal whether or not the...
In a galaxy 31 million light-years away, astronomers believe they have just found evidence of a planet. After a painstaking...
