Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

Rogue moons drifting through space may host long-lived oceans for up to 4.3 billion years, expanding where scientists search ...

Aluminium redox catalysis and reactive aluminium clusters showcase main-group element's transition-metal-like reactivity ...

Scientists Discover Ultrafast Charging Phenomenon That Drives the Development of More Efficient and Advanced Electronic Materials ...

How can we measure time more than 500 million years into the past? A study recently published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Lausanne presents a new geological "rock ...

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...

Samples from the asteroid Ryugu revealed all five genetic nucleobases, suggesting the building blocks for life existed in ...

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). A tiny stash of asteroid dust may help answer one of science’s oldest questions: how much of life’s chemistry began in space? In a groundbreaking study ...

Thu, Mar 19, 2026 Scientists examining dust from an asteroid have discovered all the fundamental building blocks required to ...

Scientists analysing dust from an asteroid have found all the key building blocks needed to create us and all other life on the planet Earth. A Japanese mission found that material collected from the ...

A newly identified world beyond our solar system is giving scientists a fresh look at how strange planets can be, and it may come with a stench to match. Astronomers have discovered what appears to be ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, happens to share some truly remarkable geophysical and geological processes with our home planet.