It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around ...

Since the corona is dimmer than the Sun's surface, it's challenging to observe. It's visible during total solar eclipses when ...

Life thrives far beneath the surface, in places once thought too harsh for survival. In the shadows of Earth’s crust, tiny ...

Recent observations by JWST of TRAPPIST-1 c ruled out a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, indicating that the planet is not as ...

NASA will soon be implementing a long-term presence on the Moon, with housing for 100 or more astronauts, and Mars will ...

A new study reveals Mars’s missing water may have slowly seeped underground, becoming trapped in ancient aquifers beneath the surface.

Although there is no exact comparison to any known bacterium on Earth, the space bacteria shares some key genetic ...

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

A swirling sea of pink, where fluffy tufts float majestically upward, while elsewhere violet plumes rain down from above.

New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University ...

Research in Nature Communications suggests the contribution of ocean biology to climate regulation is more complex than ...