A NASA astronaut revealed she has lost a bodily function since being stranded in space for eight months. Sunita Williams, and ...

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?

PARIS — Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the “basic building blocks” for life ... a ...

Scientists have found all five nucleobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

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The Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS ... Before starting his Ph.D. in atmospheric science at UMass Lowell, Tyler Harrington interned at the Federal Aviation ...

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is ... in a study recently published in Science Advances. Microbes have adapted ...

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet.

An international team of scientists in the Antarctic has successfully extracted what is believed to be the world’s oldest ice—a historic milestone for climate science. They drilled down almost ...

As the Earth was hit much more frequently by these impacts than the Moon, there should also be a measurable difference between the oxygen isotopes -- depending on the origin of the material that ...

The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from ...