Titan is unique in our solar system: it’s the only world besides Earth known to have stable liquids on its surface.

New research indicates that cellular "pockets" that are the first step toward protocells, the precursors of life, could form ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

"Ice in the rest of the universe has long been considered a snapshot of liquid water – that is, a disordered arrangement ...