Hearty bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way than we do. Physicist Daniel Whiteson exp ...

Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

Simulated lunar dirt can be turned into extremely durable structures, potentially paving the way to more sustainable and cost-effective space missions, a new study suggests. Using a special laser 3D ...

Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...