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The answer to whether tiny bacterial life-forms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once and for all by ...

Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was in Ranchester, Wyoming, on Friday for the ribbon cutting to open the first U.S. rare ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

One of humanity's most incessant searches in recent times is for evidence of extraterrestrial life, or, in other words, the ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Revenge' star Matilda Lutz dons chain-mail-clad armor and kicks a lot of ass on a quest to prevent tyrants from bleeding the ...

In its closest-ever dive into the Sun’s atmosphere, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned stunning new images and data that ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...