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

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

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

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.

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

Across India, families are embracing eco-conscious living by reviving ancient traditions. They're swapping plastics for clay, ...

These microscopic bubbles — called vesicles — could naturally occur in Titan's methane lakes, according to a new NASA study. On Earth, the structures are considered a crucial early step in the ...

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of 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?

Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...

MP Materials, which runs the only American rare earths mine, announced a new $500 million agreement with tech giant Apple on ...