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 ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.