“The loss of Mars’ atmosphere has been an ongoing mystery.” Doug McCuistion, director of the NASA Mars Exploration Program The ExoMars Mars Climate Sounder instrument on...

If future studies confirm a Milky Way galaxy-biodiversity link, it would force scientists to broaden their ideas about what can influence life...

Scientists have observed Earth-borne bacteria surviving high in the clouds or in acidic environments, and the fact we haven’t seen both at the same time is only...

When the Apollo 11 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific they were immediately whisked off into quarantine, spending three weeks in a rather...

Many astronomers believe that Venus was once inhabited by life. Some believe that life might even exist today high in Venus’s clouds. Scientists are now reproducing the...