After placing an ancient extreme Earth organism outside of the ISS for nine months, scientists were shocked to find it was ...

Plants can be quite tough—they’ll survive forgetful caretakers, aggressive pets, and other potentially life-threatening ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...

Moss spores survived in outer space for a majority of 2022, and could even reproduce when they were eventually returned to Earth, according to a new study.

For the hot end, an aluminium mount was pressed into soil, transferring the Earth’s ambient heat to the engine’s bottom plate ...

The outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to add more. There are already thousands of satellites hurdling around the Earth in low orbit - many of them are ...

The activity of the solid Earth – for example, volcanoes in Java, earthquakes in Japan, etc – is well understood within the context of the ~50-year-old theory of plate tectonics. This theory posits ...

The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals ...

A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...