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.

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...

Root microbiomes contain microbes that help plants survive times of stress and may potentially improve crop yields in ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Ice in space, long believed to be completely disordered like frozen water without structure, is turning out to be more complex. New research from (UCL) and the University of Cambridge has shown that ...

The seating options cater to every brunch personality – from the solo diner who prefers to perch at the counter on a blue metal stool, watching the world go by, to groups settling into the mix of ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...