Biosphere 2 isn’t just the site of a famous human experiment. Today, scientists there work to understand how life emerges in barren environments.

Easily the best entry to the franchise since Aliens, Alien: Earth looms terrifyingly large over almost everything else released this year. In fact, with its colossal 95% rating on the critical ...

A new study reveals that asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water. This challenges old beliefs about asteroids. Scientists analysed rock fragments from Ry ...

Have you ever thought about how we would know if other planets have life on them? How could we tell that life existed on a planet from afar, without actually landing on it? Well, 30 years ago, an ...

Unlocking the basic science of microbes, especially those that live in extreme environments, could help us find life ...

A Martian rock bearing unusual ‘leopard spot’ patterns may be the most compelling evidence yet of ancient microbial life on ...

If Elephant Rocks whets your appetite for geological wonders, consider extending your journey to nearby Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park or Taum Sauk Mountain State Park for more of Missouri’s surprising ...

Natural Bridge State Park sits within Wisconsin’s Driftless Area, a region that escaped the flattening effects of the last glaciation. While ice sheets up to a mile thick scoured and reshaped most of ...

In this boundless Milky Way galaxy, what unique position does our Earth occupy? Scientists have discovered that Earth is precisely located in the Milky Way's 'Metal Goldilocks Zone,' where only 0.1% ...

Six out of 10 music fans say they have been sexually harassed or assaulted at a live gig in the US, suggest the results of a ...

NASA has discovered signs of life on Mars in the form of organic carbon, sulfur, rust, and phosphorous in a canyon, and new ...

The rock, discovered by NASA’s Perseverance rover, has colorful leopard-like spots, suggesting chemical reactions possibly caused by microbial organisms. “Layering, nodules, reaction fronts ...