The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that hovered around 0°C. This stable, warmer temperature could have served as a ...

The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of astrobiology more cautious ...

In this time of year there is a dangerous protagonist, the heat, something that can become a serious threat and with which all possible precautions should be taken. There are many ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has detected methanol isotopes around a nearby star, which could help explain why the ingredients for life are present on Earth.

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

Without meteorites, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. As writer Maria Golia explains in her new book, Meteorite: Nature And Culture, meteorite bombardments during Earth’s infancy may have ...

Strange signals from outer space are constantly reaching Earth, hailing from sources like pulsars, quasars, and supernovas. In Antarctica, a signal like this recently seemed to materialize out of ...

Scientists are baffled by weird signals detected beneath Antarctica. A cosmic particle detector designed to pick up rays from space instead recorded a series of bizarre signals from under the ice ...