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.

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

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

The future of sustained space habitation depends on our ability to grow fresh food away from Earth. The revolutionary new ...

Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...

Root microbiomes contain microbes that help plants survive times of stress and may potentially improve crop yields in ...

Tired of city life, a couple moved from Mumbai to a quiet hill in Mahabaleshwar. On abandoned land, they began again — ...

I have a marvellous relationship with gardens. Friends and family across India from the Nilgiris to the Himalayas do the ...