One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique ...

The results, published in February in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, show that under these conditions some exomoons could remain warm enough for liquid water — and ...

Research scientists are saying that recycled human waste could help grow crops on the Moon and Mars, representing a ...

A team of amateur citizen scientists have made a significant discovery. They found huge gigantic radio circles in the deepest ...

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago ...

New research provides a physics based solution for why we aren't hearing potential messages from alien civilizations.

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Scientists grew chickpeas in simulated moon soil, raising the possibility that astronauts could one day grow crops on future ...

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As "Marathon" finally launches, we grill a trio of Bungie developers about the world, aesthetic, and ambitions of this sci-fi extraction shooter.

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...