The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the ...

In the 1931 movie “Frankenstein,” Dr. Henry Frankenstein howling his triumph was an electrifying moment in more ways than one. As massive bolts of lightning and energy crackled, Frankenstein’s monster ...

The reentry capsule for the Foton-M3 spacecraft, which has been in low-Earth orbit for the last 12 days, successfully landed this morning in an uninhabited area 150 km south of the town of Kustanay in ...

April 12 (UPI) --Everyone looks forward to the weekend, and NASA is no exception as it eagerly awaits the return of multiple space-station experiments that could offer insights into growing vegetables ...

New research deepens the understanding of Earth's crust by testing and ultimately eliminating one popular hypothesis about why continental crust is lower in iron and more oxidized compared to oceanic ...