Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Mars may already possess a built-in defense against contamination from Earth. Experiments using simulated Martian soil show that some compounds in the regolith can damage or inhibit microscopic ...

Wobbly water solution Your recent Jeff Davi op-ed touting Cal Am’s wobbly “three-legged stool” argument omitted important details. First, this stool is standing on quicksand and will be rendered ...

Mineral Point, Wisconsin is exactly that kind of town, complete with stone cottages built directly into hillsides like something out of a Hobbit movie, except these were constructed by Cornish miners ...

We will look back on the 2026 regular session of the Legislature as the session that fell on deaf ears. As multiple public school systems around the state struggled financially, the victims of ...

Residents and authorities in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz banded together in cleaning tar off their shores on ...

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...

The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran rattled world markets on Monday, with U.S. futures falling more than 1% and oil prices soaring, though gains for defense contractors and oil companies helped limit ...