"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has spent more than 13 years exploring the 3.5-billion-year-old Gale crater, slowly climbing a ...

The organic molecules discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover could have been formed by life, but they could have also come from ...

We have no idea what kind of life may exist on other planets, so it’s hard to know what to look for. Proxima Kósmos imagines ...

A new study suggests that aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years before oxygen became abundant in Earth’s ...

Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22 to raise awareness about environmental protection and inspire action to ...

It was 1972 and Apollo astronauts Harrison "Jack" Schmitt and Eugene Cernan had just stepped onto the moon's surface to begin ...

For all that scientists rightfully worry about the dangers of climate change, the environmental movement has come a long way ...

One of the compounds resembles a precursor to DNA, the building block of life, adding to evidence the Red Planet was once ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has detected never-before-seen compounds on Mars - and they're widely considered the building blocks ...

When UW professor David Catling from the department of Earth and space sciences (ESS) was named a 2026 geochemistry fellow, ...

Earth Day is Wednesday, and Georgians can visit the five best state parks as ranked by Tripadvisor. Where are they? What do ...