A new spacecraft proposed by scientists at CU Boulder could soon be NASA's nose in space, sniffing out the environments beyond Earth's... more

Astronomers have created five models representing key points from our planet's evolution, like chemical snapshots through Earth's own geologic epochs. The models will be spectral templates for astronomers... more

Astronomers have created five models representing key points from our planet's evolution, like chemical snapshots through Earth's own geologic epochs. The models will be spectral templates for astronomers... more

A research team led by Harvard University scientist Julie McGeoch has found a never-before-seen protein inside a meteorite called Acfer... more

UFO sightings during NATO war games in 1952 set the stage for the season finale of "Project Blue Book," the History channel's... more

NASA and the National Academies are set to start the next planetary science decadal survey, one... more

New research raises the possibility that some parts of Mercury's subsurface, and those of similar planets in the galaxy, once could have been capable of fostering prebiotic chemistry, and perhaps... more

Freeman Dyson may be gone, but his famous alien-hunting idea will likely persist far into the future. more

Rutgers researchers have discovered the origins of the protein structures responsible for metabolism: simple molecules that powered early life on Earth and serve as chemical signals... more

Scientists present important new findings regarding the origin of oceans and life on Earth. Measurements on the oldest preserved mantle rocks from Greenland show that -- contrary to... more

A joint Russian-European expedition to find life on Mars has been postponed for two years, the Russian and European space agencies said Thursday, citing the novel coronavirus and multiple technical issues. more

Scientists present important new findings regarding the origin of oceans and life on Earth. Measurements on the oldest preserved mantle rocks from Greenland show... more

Plants are essential for life on earth. They provide food for essentially all organisms, oxygen for breathing, and they regulate the climate of the planet. Proteins play a key role in controlling all aspects... more

Plants are irreplaceable in the food chain, providing food and oxygen for essentially all organisms, and they regulate the climate of the planet. Proteins play a key role in controlling all aspects of life,... more

Ancient rocks from Greenland have shown that the elements necessary for the evolution of life did not come... more

Astronomers using robotic telescopes at ESO’s newest planet-hunting SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) Observatory in Chile have spotted a... more

A new kind of astronomical observation helped reveal the possible evolutionary history of a baby Neptune-like exoplanet. more

University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including... more

Perseverance is the latest in a long line of Red Planet rovers to be named by school-age children, from Sojourner... more

In a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, University of Tokyo’s Professor Tomonori Totani looked at how the building... more

A team of astronomers led by UC San Diego physicist Shelley Wright is deploying a pair of telescopes that will constantly search the nighttime sky for signals from intelligent life in our galaxy. more

Nearly 100,000 pop culture fans flocked to Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle last year, including many dressed as superheroes, aliens and robots. But something scarier than a comic book... more

On this week’s show, Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how dogs’ cold noses may... more

NASA’s Curiosity rover recently discovered various classes of organic matter in the Martian sediments. One intriguing group of... more

To help answer one of the great existential questions—how did life begin?—a new study combines biological and cosmological models. Professor... more

Organic compounds called thiophenes are found on Earth in coal, crude oil and oddly enough, in white truffles, the mushroom beloved by epicureans and... more

Organic compounds called thiophenes are found on Earth in coal, crude oil and oddly enough, in white truffles, the mushroom beloved by... more

More than half of the planet's fresh water is in Antarctica. While most of it is frozen in the ice sheets, underneath the ice... more

Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the... more

Using data gathered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope, a team of astronomers in Canada has discovered 17 new exoplanets, including an Earth-sized world. Designated... more

Kevin Costner, eat your heart out. New research shows that the early Earth, home to some of our planet's first lifeforms, may have been a real-life "waterworld"— without a continent in sight. more

In this episode of Life's Little Mysteries, we'll take a closer look at a mysterious group of animals that included some of the heaviest, tallest and fiercest creatures to ever... more

A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet... more

Physicist Freeman Dyson was known for his work on quantum physics and mathematics, as well as his big ideas about the far future. more