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 ...

The origin of life on Earth has long remained a mystery. Cosmic dust may have helped to kick-start life on Earth, new ...

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

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

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

Analysis of a strange pattern left on the Earth’s surface by a meteor shower has upended our understanding of how the planet ...

About 252 million years ago, extreme El Niño ocean warming events were a major driver of the largest mass extinction in our ...

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 ...