Burrowing under soil opens up a whole new world, especially when that soil is on other planets. Getting under the top layer ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

This is telling us that not just the water, but some of the building blocks of life actually were seeded on the Earth and ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Alien lifeforms living in oceans on other planets could remain hidden from spacecraft, suggests new research. Searching for ...

These extreme temperatures, among other factors, make life as we know it impossible on Mercury. "The extreme weather conditions do not allow for the planet to have liquid water, which is the basis ...

“Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history ... mixture of organic compounds. And the other, in the ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...