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

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

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

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

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

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one — liquid ...

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

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

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

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...