From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is teeming with ...

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 ...

Caltech scientists published a study using NASA Curiosity rover imagery showing the past existence of warm water on Mars.

Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...

Instruments like the those currently on the Red Planet were used to study samples collected from an 'Mars-like' area in Chile ...

The University of Kentucky College of Design is partnering with New York-based nonprofit organization The World Around (TWA) ...

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

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life. "We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a ...

When an asteroid strikes, there's typically at least one undeniable outcome: an asteroid mess. The most obvious part of this mess tends to come in the form of a nice and cinematic crater, but ...

Carrying a rifle and keeping an alcohol-ration card are a few things that surprised me about living in Longyearbyen, the ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...