A team led by an astronomer from the University of Maryland has, for the first time, detected large complex organic molecules frozen in ice beyond the Milky Way, providing new insight into the ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals ...

Before sunlight ever reached the planet, another force may have sparked life—electricity. Deep beneath the ocean floor, ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

NASA’s Mars rover collected rock samples that could reveal if the planet once hosted life. Here’s what scientists plan to do ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial ...

Bureaucrat who dismissed cybersecurity advice thought risk was 'overrated' Multiple people dead as US cargo plane crashes on ...

Newly discovered multi-wavelength view of a stellar eruption on a young Sun-like star is changing how we think about life's ...

Asteroid mining is moving from fiction to fact, here’s how missions and startups are redefining resource extraction beyond ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains ancient, ice-covered rocks that may have delivered much of Earth’s water ...