Just 39 light-years away, the Trappist-1 system hosts seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a dim red dwarf star,three of which lie within the habitable zone. These alien worlds may harbor the ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why Earth stayed warm and alive while Mars turned cold and dry. Both planets began ...

Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published ...

Using samples collected by the Chinese Chang’e 5 mission, researchers have discovered a new way to release water from lunar ...

A futuristic rice plant just 10cm tall could feed astronauts and help make Moon bases possible — and maybe even transform ...

Around 17 million Americans are under flood watches as they head into another soggy summer weekend. It comes as a heat wave ...

China’s spy agency has accused overseas intelligence agencies of stealing controlled rare earth materials, reiterating its ...

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At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

But these old rocks were one of the rarest minerals found on Earth. Until the discovery, only about a snowball-sized amount ...

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

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...