Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months exploring a geological feature on Mars known as boxwork: a vast network of low rock ridges, about 3–6 feet (1–2 meters) tall, crisscrossing the ...

Beyond that, in the decades to come, we might be able to see the colours of an exoplanet’s surface, and determine if plant life might be present there. And then we can search for changes in a planet’s ...

Rotello has worked with Patti Smith and was friends with Hilly Kristal, the late owner of CBGB, the iconic club where Smith, Blondie and the Ramones got their start.

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Around 1.7 billion years ago, eukaryotes—the building blocks of complex life—first appeared on Earth, and now scientists have ...

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

Tardigrades, a type of microscopic animal, can reveal information about how life interacts with simulated Martian mineral deposits. The three images on top are active tardigrades in a typical Earth ...

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take ...

With the release, the American public could learn what, if anything, the government has documented about the unexplained ...

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...