Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...

"Being off even a little bit represents hundreds or thousands of kilometers in distance on the surface of the Earth." ...

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 ...

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

Can desert lichen survive extreme UV radiation? Study shows it might hold clues to how life could exist on distant, ...

Published June 12th in Astrobiology, the new research demonstrated that lichen found in the Mojave Desert survived for 3 ...

Essentially, gas pistoning is a shallow, degassing-driven rise and fall of a lava surface. Often these pistons occur in ...

If you’ve been following the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island, you might have seen the ...

How debris from fourth SpaceX launch failure this year fell into Mexico; what is the danger of space debris generally?

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...