UC Riverside scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in ...

Scientists and their supporters now face a similar test. In its first weeks, the Trump administration has targeted the U.S.

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

Across India anxiety is growing about the early onset of summer and its impact on the economy. David Harrop from Warwickshire says a beautiful beach near Brisbane was just ripped up. Residents are ...

“We’re looking at the most aggressively anti-science government the United States has ever had,” astronomer Phil Plait told ...

Star would be the first private mission to another planet and the first in over 30 years to directly measure Venus’s clouds.

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