Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...
Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.
A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.
Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...
Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.
Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...
Scientists in Brazil have uncovered evidence of a previously unknown impact event recorded in hundreds of glassy fragments ...
Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He ...