New research suggests it is unlikely NASA’s plans to obtain samples from Enceladus' liquid oceans will provide clear evidence ...

Scientists searching for life beyond Earth often look to ocean worlds like Enceladus, one of Saturn’s icy moons. Enceladus ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

Under certain conditions though, snow and ice can prove lethal to plants and animals. The weight of wet snow can break ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars ...

The construction ingenuity of Athens' Parthenon has enabled it to miraculously survive natural disasters such as earthquakes.

A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it.

Chemical traces and microbes could break down or transform as they rise, making them unrecognizable by the time they reach ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

Understanding how life as we know it came to exist, is something that scientists and researchers have long been examining by looking at the geological evidence we have left on Earth. A key place to ...