As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

Scientists have long studied the sun, our solar system’s life-giving star, trying to understand its behavior, solar flares, ...

Analyzing pristine fragments of the asteroid delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023, a team led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found ribose, a crucial building ...

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA. This brings us to the other new discovery, reported in Nature Geoscience, ...

Humans have continuously inhabited the International Space Station since November 2, 2000. NASA plans to deorbit the ISS in 2030, transitioning to commercially owned space stations. Private companies ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...

Being weightless affects everything from the way food tastes to getting a good night's sleep. Here's what it's like to spend months in space. Ask any astronaut who has spent extended periods in the ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life began in our solar system.

Space technology on Earth has gone from futuristic to foundational in our everyday lives. From satellite innovations that enable global communication to space science applications improving ...

Australia’s desert surrounding Cooper Creek turns green after record floods as NASA satellites capture rare river blooms.