New research sheds light on icy ocean worlds like Jupiter's Europa, focusing on a novel thermodynamic concept called the ...

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Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without ...

Alien life might look unlike anything we've ever seen on Earth. Trying to find evidence ... and eight popular science books.

What are the limits of life? Can it exist on other planets or in a lab-created form on Earth? These fascinating questions, ...

Scientists have spent an incredible amount of manpower attempting to determine what conditions support life ... is the subject of a new paper published in Communications Earth & Environment.

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe — life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might ...