A new commander has taken charge aboard the ISS as three crew members prepare for their return to Earth—just in time for one ...

NASA is making significant progress on the Gateway program, with the HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) module entering ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

The biological and life science experiment samples transported by the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft have been successfully ...

As the Shenzhou-20 manned spacecraft and the Long March-2F Y20 carrier rocket stand ready at the launch site on ...

Earth and Mars are mysteriously low in elements like copper and zinc, which are crucial for planetary chemistry and potentially life. A new study overturns old theories by showing that these elements ...

New JWST data strengthens earlier hints that K2-18b, a possible water world 120 light-years away, could host the chemical byproducts of life.

The study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that asteroid and comet impacts possibly supplied Earth with molecules essential for life-sustaining ...

If we had people living their whole life in orbit, when they come down to Earth, they would probably think that was the most beautiful perspective they’d ever seen.” Pettit takes his photos ...

Perhaps the falling of water, the most crucial element that sustains us, also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.” Mindy Weisberger is a science ...

The so-called LIFE mission would study the atmospheres of dozens of exoplanets with a similar temperature, radius and mass to Earth for signs of water and oxygen. "A single positive detection ...

“Microlightning” exchanges among water droplets could have sparked the building blocks of life on ancient Earth, new research finds. Here, a wave breaks on White Sand Beach on the Thai island ...