Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like ...

The geological layer marks the point when the non-avian dinosaurs and many other species were killed by a cataclysmic event.

A single tree of either type represents a fairly small amount of carbon dioxide in the grand scheme of things.

Have you ever wondered if crabs and lobsters felt pain or fear as they were being boiled alive before making it onto your ...

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

A zircon crystal from a Martian meteorite unlocks secrets of a water-rich, dynamic Mars 4.45 billion years ago.

The Moon also offers a handy site for an offworld seed repository of Earth’s plant life, much like the Svalbard Global Seed ...

Asteroid Ryugu was altered by water and contains organic molecules older than the Sun. The building blocks of RNA and Vitamin ...

The samples were collected by Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which launched in December 2014 and successfully rendezvoused ...

What if Earth were furious with humanity? What if revolutionaries took their cues from an unruly planet? Anne ...

"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...