Genetic analysis shows that microbes growing inside the International Space Station have adaptations for radiation and low ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you ...

Cosmic dust may have helped to kick-start life on Earth, new research suggests. The findings challenge a widely held ...

ESA 's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug. 20, it took a quick look at ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Beyond Barriers writer Sophie Morgan on what it means to be the first British paraplegic woman to experience a zero-gravity ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station age slightly slower than the rest of us on Earth due to time-dilation effects.

As Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spend months longer than planned on ISS, three astronauts tell us what life is like in ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.

NASA is weeks away from sending its Clipper orbiter on a journey to the Jupiter moon Europa, which scientists believe could ...