If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer birdsong, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere, where ...

New research sheds light on icy ocean worlds like Jupiter's Europa, focusing on a novel thermodynamic concept called the ...

Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

“Scientists estimate that we’ve identified only one-tenth of all species on Earth,” said Dr. Shannon ... privilege of describing a species as new to science is a thrill that not many will ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without ...

Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 ...

A reanalysis of the data from the "rubber-ducky" comet 67P, collected nearly a decade ago, suggests comets may have deposited a lot more water on Earth than scientists previously thought.

Scientists have spent an incredible amount of manpower attempting to determine what conditions support life ... is the subject of a new paper published in Communications Earth & Environment.