The red brick exterior with its classic storefront windows gives off that quintessential small-town Pennsylvania charm. A wooden bench and barrel planters outside invite you to sit a spell, maybe ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

Ice in space, long believed to be completely disordered like frozen water without structure, is turning out to be more complex. New research from (UCL) and the University of Cambridge has shown that ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

In the late 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution created demand for stronger, more reliable materials for machines, railroads, ships and infrastructure. The material that emerged was ...

A discovery made by a NASA rover has offered a clue for this mystery, new research said Wednesday, suggesting that while ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...