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

Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could ...

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

One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

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

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

NASA is focused on the moon as a crucial stepping stone for future deep space exploration. Earth's moon is a 4.5-billion-year ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form that has the potential to lead to alien life.

A study published recently in Joule reveals that the technology can successfully extract water from soil samples and convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuel chemicals.

A study published recently in Joule reveals that the technology can successfully extract water from soil samples and convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuel chemicals.

What can the climate history of Mars teach scientists about whether the Red Planet once had the ingredients for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our fundamental ...