A mysterious signal from deep space just changed everything we thought we knew about an interstellar comet racing through our ...

NASA and the European Space Agency plan to bring samples back from Mars. Could they harbor a type of life that scientists warn could trigger mass extinctions on Earth?

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are important carriers of organic matter throughout the universe. As organic ...

That’s also true for the other moons that provide the gravitational stress. As a result, the internal oceans may actually ...

A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

Simulations comparing aluminum oxide models with differing amounts of corrugation demonstrate the significance of hydroxyl ...

ANN ARBOR—For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ...

Using a machine learning technique that compares molecular fingerprints left behind by living organisms, researchers have ...