Compared to previous theories, the current research emphasizes the complexity of the biological and chemical processes that brought about life.

A baby sunlike star blowing a bubble of hot gas called an “astrosphere” was captured for the first time by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

White noise on televisions and radios contained remnants of the Big Bang. When we saw it on screen during a bad reception or when channels were unavailable, we were unknowingly watching our universe's ...

President Trump claimed in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to have ushered in a “turnaround for the ages” by citing a list of familiar falsehoods and inaccurate claims. In nearly two ...

It started with a rock that didn’t look like a big deal. Just a dark lump in the Sahara. The kind of thing you could walk ...

Active small bodies—including comets, active asteroids, icy minor planets, and transitional objects—occupy a unique position in planetary science. As ...

When did Jupiter’s Galilean moons first contain the ingredients for life? This is what complementary studies published in The ...

Sunspots are cooler areas on the sun's surface that appear darker compared to their surroundings. These solar blemishes are ...

Scientists have found new evidence that Jupiter’s largest moons may have received the chemical building blocks of life at the moment they formed. The discovery suggests that worlds like Europa, ...

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, may have been even more instrumental to the system’s evolution than we thought, forming ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might have formed after a collision with a lost moon, according to new research.