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

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

Around 4.6 billion years ago, a vast cloud of gas and dust called a molecular cloud drifted through the Milky Way. Composed ...

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

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise.

A naturally occurring mineral, talc consists of several elements like magnesium and silicon. When ground into fine particles, ...

One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

Naturally occurring "white hydrogen" lies in vast reservoirs beneath our feet – now the gold rush of the clean energy era is ...

A new breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production uses unlikely ingredients: recycled aluminum, seawater, and caffeine at an ...