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.

Scientists had assumed that the ice in space was purely amorphous, but new experiments show it can have a partly crystalline ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

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

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

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

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

U.S. diets should include more of vitamins D and E, fiber, calcium and magnesium — all are essential nutrients that could offer health benefits.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Ice in space, long believed to be completely disordered like frozen water without structure, is turning out to be more complex. New research from (UCL) and the University of Cambridge has shown that ...

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

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