Lichens grow in a wide range of shapes and forms. Does their ability to resist UV radiation suggest how microbes might ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

A lecture entitled “ENCOUNTER WITH ALIENS FROM STONE-AGE TO SPACE-AGE” will be jointly hosted in Colombo by the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka (NASSL) and the Sri Lanka Association for the ...

Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Nimal Senadheera, met with Commonwealth Secretary-General, Shirley ...

REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, Collecting asteroid samples China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this ...

Working at NASA may seem like a distant dream, but with early planning and the right academic steps, students can build a ...

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has allowed scientists to determine, for the first time, the pH level of the ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus — and it turns out to be highly alkaline, ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Researchers show algae can grow in Mars-like atmospheric pressure conditions. If humans are ever to establish permanent ...

The search for extraterrestrial life oscillates between hope and skepticism. A recent study reports promising clues about a distant exoplanet, reigniting the debate. The case of exoplanet K2-18 b ...

What new methods can be developed in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)? This is what a recent white paper ...