How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Astrobiocentrism: reflections on challenges in the transition to a vision of life and humanity in space. International Journal of Astrobiology, Vol. 23, Issue. , Approaches from the sciences ... about ...

Meanwhile on Earth opens in theaters November 8. The average science-fiction protagonist doesn’t know they’re a ...

The "RNA world" hypothesis proposes that the earliest life on Earth may have been based on RNA -; a single-stranded molecule similar in many ways to DNA -; like some modern viruses. This is ...

BEIJING — Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Monday after a six-month stay on the Tiangong space station, part of ...

A new type of sustainable battery could help pave the way for astronauts to power their tools during future missions to Mars.

Supposed clairvoyant Baba Vanga has had a reputation for accurately predicting the future since the 1940s. She allegedly predicted 9/11, the election of Barack Obama, and more. But how accurate are ...

Voyager 1 has two radio transmitters. NASA's 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft recently established contact with Earth after a ...

More than 25 payloads sponsored by the International Space Station (ISSInternational Space Station) National Laboratory, including technology demonstrations, in-space manufacturing, student ...