Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the galaxy and take stock.

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...

“Bacteria and archaea are two of the oldest forms of life on Earth, but they move in different ways and evolved motility ...

What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated ...

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...