Astrobiology is a multidisciplinary scientific field that seeks to understand the potential for life beyond Earth. It ...

Burrowing under soil opens up a whole new world, especially when that soil is on other planets. Getting under the top layer ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

There are 12 zodiac signs - Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

Scientists Uncover a Hidden Microbial World ...

One is that that life’s building blocks were delivered on or in meteorites. The other is that those building blocks came together spontaneously via geochemistry in our planet’s early environment.

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start.

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...