Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have inadvertently eliminated Martian life. The missions used water in experiments to ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

The Arecibo Observatory may be no longer, but its thoughtful message continues to inspire astronomers and scholars worldwide.

On November 4, the seventh batch of space science experiment samples from the Chinese space station successfully returned to Earth with the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft, which includes a total of 55 types ...

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.

BEIJING -- China's Shenzhou XIX crew aboard the orbiting Tiangong space station received a shipment of supplies from Earth on ...

The significance of this discovery lies in its potential to bridge the gap between simple molecular structures and the ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

“If you extract all the DNA, you have DNA from living organisms and also DNA that can represent organisms that just died or ...

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science gave members of the media a behind-the-scenes look at its new exhibit ...

From hallucinogenic fish to nematodes oozing with lifespan-extending pheromones, many animals on Earth secrete chemicals with effects similar to those produced by Arrakis’s giant sandworms.