Sometimes we humans get ahead of ourselves. We embark on grand engineering experiments without really understanding what the ...

A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

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Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

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Surprisingly, a toxic compound found on Mars could help bacteria produce brick-like substances that could be used to assemble habitats on the Red Planet.

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Planetary scientists have identified a previously unrecognized pathway for water loss on Mars -- observed, for the first time ...

The current image of Mars as an arid and hostile desert contrasts sharply with the history revealed by its surface. Channels, ...

For the first time in 54 years, humans will head toward the moon this week. So why does it feel like most of us are barely ...

Ancient volcanic rocks reveal how two giant hot regions beneath Africa and the Pacific have shaped Earth's magnetic shield.