Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

Perchlorate, a toxic substance found in Mars dirt, could help the bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii strengthen bonds between particles of regolith.

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

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The red planet was half blue, according to space scientists. A research team using images from cameras on Mars-orbiting spacecraft say it was a "blue planet" around three billion years ago – with an ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that led to biology or when the first primitive life forms appeared. But what if ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...