The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

We inhabit a small planet that rotates around one of 100 billion suns in the Milky Way galaxy. And the Milky Way is only one ...

Tonally speaking, the “Alien” movies span several genres — mainly action, horror and operatic sci-fi. The best double as ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

Sure, it probably helped that I was in my early 20s, and my only life responsibilities were reading lists and pub crawls, but I was happier there than during college in the US.

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

Human well-being on a finite planet towards 2100," uses a system dynamics-based modeling approach to explore two future ...

Fast facts: Are we alone in the universe? So far, the only life we know of is right here on our planet Earth. But we’re looking. The big question – Is there life beyond Earth? – comes with an ironic ...