Water is essential for life on Earth and other planets, and scientists have found ample evidence of water in Mars’ early history.

According to this scenario, life on Earth was originally based on RNA only, and DNA and protein enzymes evolved later.

Samples from the Moon's Oceanus Procellarum may be able to calm at least one scientific squall: the source of lunar water.

Samples returned from the Hayabusa2 mission provides invaluable insights into the formation and evolution of our solar system.

The space agency on Thursday announced a new study that will recruit leading scientists to examine unidentified aerial phenomena.

For several hundred million years after the Moon formed, frequent impacts coupled with abundant volcanism on the planet formed basaltic lava

The Andromeda galaxy, our Milky Way's closest neighbor, is the most distant object in the sky that you can see with your unaided eye.

Planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars and might point to extraterrestrial life.

New research suggests an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology – the Hubble constant.

A unique new instrument, coupled with a powerful telescope and a little help from nature, enables scientists to peer into galactic nurseries

The robotic explorer GLIMPSE, created at ETH Zurich has made it into the final round of a competition for prospecting resources in space.

Scientists have grown plants in soil from the Moon, a first in human history and a milestone in lunar and space exploration.

New discovery opens the door for scientists to see ideas in action that were previously only understood in theory or represented in science.

Long-duration space flight alters fluid-filled spaces along veins and arteries in the brain, according to new research

Soil on the moon contains active compounds that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuels, scientists in China report.

A futuristic technique conceptualized by Stanford scientists could enable astronomical imaging far more advanced than any present today.

The sensor is a surveying tool for both navigation and science mapping, able to create ultra-high-resolution 3D maps at centimeter precision

Researchers have demonstrated Alfvén waves accelerating electrons under conditions that correspond to Earth’s magnetosphere.

Hydrogen and oxygen escaping from Earth’s upper atmosphere and combining on the moon could be one of the sources of the known lunar water.

Researchers at MSU, China and France have unveiled a new theory that could help solve a galactic mystery of how our solar system evolved.