For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Scientists say Earth’s magnetic field may have funneled atmospheric particles to the moon for billions of years. Lunar soil could preserve a record of Earth’s past while providing resources for future ...

Life on our planet emerged quickly or, at least, it did so on a geological timescale. Fossils reveal that micro-life existed on our planet at least 3.5 billion years ago. The rapid emergence of life ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions ...