Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected a young star system, HD 100453, awash in alcohol, approximately 330 light-years away. This protoplanetary disk contains methanol and its rare ...

Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about water, planets, and life itself.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

A small but growing number of footwear companies are using "biodegradable" and "compostable" as selling points. What does that mean, exactly?

Chief technology officer Sapir Markus-Alford earned a bachelor’s degree in earth and environmental sciences from Israel ...