For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

The deep-sea volcanoes beneath Earth’s oceans may offer vital clues in the search for alien life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...

"Ice in the rest of the universe has long been considered a snapshot of liquid water – that is, a disordered arrangement fixed in place. Our findings show this is not entirely true." ...

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 ...