NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen, have announced plans to study the deepest ...

Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X ...

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 ...

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

That’s the verdict from Tim Coulson, a professor of Zoology at Oxford University, who knows more than most about the weird ...

Based on the history of life here on earth, at least one prominent paleontologist thinks that complex life in the cosmos is ...

Their mission could "change the way we look at the possibility of life on other planets too," the researchers ... "But these [new] experiments will provide the proof." This might seem a niche ...

In a way, the authoritarian excesses of the Earth-based regime known as the Mandate in my novel Alien Clay are as much a thought experiment as the bizarre life of Kiln, the planet on which the ...

NASA says it has a dual approach plan to bring home potential proof of life on Mars by 2035 after updating its Mars Sample ...