Astrobiology poses fundamental questions about life in the universe: How did it emerge? Is there life beyond Earth? In a recently published study in PLOS One, researchers from Leiden University ...

"We are really trying to understand how far we can go, chemically, toward larger biological molecules and what environments are needed to form them." Researchers have created a "fingerprint" of a ...

A major climate change report has laid out a dire future. Meanwhile Minister Murray Watt has handed another win to Woodside.

Poet Robert Frost once said, “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” Whatever your own thoughts on this journey we're all on may be, we've gathered a collection ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves, rushing ...

In collaboration with researchers from Toho University in Japan, NASA researchers have used supercomputers to model and determine how long life will remain possible on Earth. The calculated end date ...

Life is a journey filled with highs and lows, joys and sorrows, and moments that shape who we are. Sometimes, a few wise words can offer the motivation we need to keep going. Whether you’re searching ...

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 p.m.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...