New research explores volcanic caves, advancing the search for life on Mars Date: November 18, 2024 Source: University of South Florida Summary: Through the intricate study of lava tubes -- caves ...

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.

There are aliens in the universe, according to one astronaut. But humanity has one massive stumbling block when it comes to ...

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 ...

Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil. It may be a vital ecosystem — one that you can help protect.

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 ...

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

Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it was super-heated and ...