The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise.

Naturally occurring "white hydrogen" lies in vast reservoirs beneath our feet – now the gold rush of the clean energy era is ...

MP Materials, which runs the only American rare earths mine, announced a new $500 million agreement with tech giant Apple on ...

One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

A new breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production uses unlikely ingredients: recycled aluminum, seawater, and caffeine at an ...

Earth’s oceans cover roughly 70% of the surface. Beneath the mesmerizing surface, marine life is being captured by nets, traps and other human-made hazards. In the process of struggling to escape, ...

NASA is focused on the moon as a crucial stepping stone for future deep space exploration. Earth's moon is a 4.5-billion-year ...