For decades, scientists have puzzled over why Earth stayed warm and alive while Mars turned cold and dry. Both planets began ...

Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published ...

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

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

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

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For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

Skincare is a part of our daily routine. Among the products available for skin care, sunscreen is essential. It protects us ...

Earth’s oceans cover roughly 70% of the surface. Beneath the mesmerizing surface, marine life is being captured by nets, traps and other human-made hazards. In the process of struggling to escape, ...

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 ...