Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

Gas from the seafloor has scientists wondering if oxygen could be found in the oceans of other planets.

The solar system consists of 8 planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Each planet has its own unique characteristics, such as size, composition ...

"We're pretty confident we'll find it happening elsewhere ... same process could allow microscopic life to thrive beneath oceans that are on other planets and moons. "If there's oxygen," said ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found oxygen being produced in a location where no one expected it – the ...

In a way, the authoritarian excesses of the Earth-based regime known as the Mandate in my novel Alien Clay are as much a thought experiment as the bizarre life of Kiln, the planet on which the ...

This month six planets grace the sky in what’s known ... Venus and Saturn will be just 2.2 degrees away from each other, according to Outside Magazine. That's about the width of two little ...

We asked our readers to make a wish for 2025. If even one of these wishes comes true, the world will definitely be a better ...

A Yale study reveals that elevated marine iodine concentrations disrupted the stabilization of Earth’s ozone layer, delaying ...

Finding oxygen, or other highly reactive gases such as chlorine in the atmosphere of a planet, would be a strong indicator of life being present. Life as we know it is made up of complicated ...