High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

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“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Simulations showed that over 10 lakh macroscopic objects, each wider than 100 metres were moving surreptitiously outside our ...

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing ...

In a theoretical study, researchers explored how a twin Earth with human-like life and technology might detect our ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

“Knowing that this movie sat between ‘Alien’ and ‘Aliens’ — those two icons of science fiction and action and horror — meant ...