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Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...
At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...
At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...
Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a groundbreaking finding about rocky exoplanets that seem inhospitable due to their volcanic activity. Many of these planets, which display ...
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.
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.
NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.
Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...
"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...
Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...
The planetary boundaries framework (Rockström et al., 2009; Steffen et al., 2015) identifies nine Earth system processes with proposed “safe operating spaces”. This framework allows define safe limits ...
During Earth’s ancient global glaciation, known as “Snowball Earth,” scientists propose that life may have survived in meltwater ponds scattered atop the icy surface. Credit: Shutterstock Modern-day ...