Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes his research into extremophiles in the Atacama could help NASA re-assess its search for ...

Thousands of cattle have been killed and carefully harvested for their sex organs for at least half a century, leaving no ...

A recent discovery made by scientists working with a sample of rock from outer space highlights one of the huge challenges ...

By exploring Uranus’s moons, scientists aim to refine the tools and models necessary to search for life in similarly extreme ...

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 delivered samples of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth back in 2020, and since then, teams of ...

This feature article looks back on the history of the Half-Life game series from the founding of Valve up to the 2020.

The Blue Mesa Trail is nestled within the Petrified Forest National Park. It’s a place that sounds like it should be full of ...

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside ...

A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a ...

Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived ...