Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

Scientists have converted food waste into biodegradable plastic using bacteria, offering a dual fix for global food and ...

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 ...

Rationing, coupons and making do became part of everyday life with things like tripe, makeshift butter and fidget pie on the ...

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 water, planets, and life itself.

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.

Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...

"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 ...