"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Learn about the technology that may help astronauts survive on the moon by extracting water from lunar soil and producing ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, a vast cloud of gas and dust called a molecular cloud drifted through the Milky Way. Composed ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

WIRED stopped by the new Tesla Diner in Hollywood to talk to people who still stan Elon Musk. “I want to go to Mars, and he ...

MP Materials, which runs the only American rare earths mine, announced a new $500 million agreement with tech giant Apple on ...

Earth’s oceans cover roughly 70% of the surface. Beneath the mesmerizing surface, marine life is being captured by nets, traps and other human-made hazards. In the process of struggling to escape, ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...