When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...

How did complex life survive when Earth was frozen over? Scientists say tiny meltwater ponds on ancient ice may have been the ...

Thick clay deposits on Mars hint at long-lived lakes that may have sheltered early life - and preserved clues beneath layers ...

Researchers at the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht have observed the formation of nanocavities in montmorillonite clay ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed "Snowball Earth".

As NASA rolls out more powerful telescopes in the future, scientists will need a way to determine where to point them. A new ...

Scientists from MIT studied how organisms live in modern Antarctic meltwater ponds to predict how similar organisms would ...

During the red giant phase, both the Sun and Jupiter will shine brighter and become hotter. However, its moon Europa is ...