If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

All conceivable life forms, whether earthly or extraterrestrial, require an energy source, and scientists are increasingly employing a “Follow the Energy” approach in the search for signs of ...

With Starmus Earth: The Future of Our Home Planet around the corner, we sat down with David Eicher, the Astronomy Magazine editor-in-chief and one of the event’s speakers, to hear his thoughts on a ...

REV Exploration (REVX:CA) announced on Monday that it has upsized its previously announced listed issuer financing exemption offering (LIFE offering) by $300,000, from gross proceeds of up to $2.5 ...

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans interact with their environment. Researchers analyzed over 12,000 instances ...

HOUSTON — Imagine yourself hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight hours with five people you just met. Does that make you sweat? Or maybe make your ...

Mars skylights like this could be the mouths of caves formed by lava tubes. NASA wants to explore them. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona Ever since scientists have had an orbiter's view ...

Ever wondered what it’s actually like to live on the International Space Station? With well over twenty years since this orbiting marvel was first inhabited by astronauts around the world, take a ...

Some time in 1966, if U.S. space exploration sticks to schedule, a strange device the size of a milk bottle will plop onto the dry crust of Mars, set itself up on three self-adjusting legs, and begin ...