Ancient Martian life might be preserved in ice for millions of years, new research suggests. Experiments show pure ice acts ...

Experiments show amino acids can cling to interstellar dust, survive heating, and reach planets - supporting a cosmic origin ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and is responsible for the building and ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

Scientists have found that a sample of the moon brought to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 17 astronauts contains a ratio of sulfur ...

Astronomers tracking upcoming space missions say new telescopes and probes could detect signs of extraterrestrial biology within the next six years — a timeline that’s sparking both hope and debate ...

Terraforming is the theoretical process of transforming a planet or moon to make it habitable for humans and other Earth-like ...

At the Vernadsky Research Station in Antarctica, scientific work advances solutions to global problems. Charles Cockell looks ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

Wiemann combines tools from chemistry, biology, and geology to explore ecological and evolutionary questions about life on ...