Extremophiles: Life in Extreme Conditions Extremophiles are the superheroes of the microbial world. These organisms find a ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Learn about the new perspective on Earth's reduction of moderately volatile elements, a discovery made possible by meteorites ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the “habitable zone” of a nearby star similar to our sun ...