Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...

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

There are places on this planet that feel less like corners of the Earth and more like fragments from a dream, or perhaps the ...

Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is visiting a home away from Earth that has seen continuous human presence ...

Researchers are developing bioplastic bubbles from algae that could grow, repair, and protect habitats on Mars without ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified TOI-1846 b, a super-Earth exoplanet located 154 light-years away.

Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...

If you're an animal enthusiast, you probably know that the vast majority of animals prefer not to spend their lives in motion ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...