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

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

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

What can the climate history of Mars teach scientists about whether the Red Planet once had the ingredients for life as we ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

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

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

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

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new ...

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