A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station to help study life's adaptability under extreme conditions ...

Mars, today a cold, irradiated, and dry world, once had a much warmer and wetter environment. The planet was covered by lakes ...

Titan may seem like a prime candidate for alien life with its organic-rich surface and deep subsurface ocean, but new ...

Explore the phenomenon of glowing ocean events known as milky seas, created by bioluminescent bacteria visible from space.

In the waters off Iwo Jima, a volcanic island in Japan’s Satsuma archipelago, the sea has a distinct green tint. It’s not ...

Approximately 400m tonnes of plastics are produced each year, with 40% designated for single-use such as straws, according to ...

Microbes - alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface.

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly ...