Haloferax volcanii, a model halophilic (salt-loving) archaeon, showed growth during a 160-day experiment simulating Martian ...

A new analysis by University of South Wales Professor Duncan Pirrie and his colleagues undercuts the leading theory that the 6-ton slab of sandstone came from northeastern Scotland, though the ...

Hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas was seen during Mars’ cold aphelion season, when none was expected; the detection is best ...

Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have identified a slow dopamine signal that runs from the gut to ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected the most deuterium-rich methane ever measured in ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have turned their cameras on an eerie ...

In a new hypothesis paper, two neuroscientists at the University of Minnesota argue that the crossed arrangement of the ...

Roughly one in 14 adults in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States says someone has made, shared or threatened ...

A new species of extinct megapode bird -- a ground-dwelling relative of the chicken that was several times heavier than its living cousin -- has been identified from a single fragment of leg bone ...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of megaraptorid dinosaur from an incomplete skeleton unearthed in ...

Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in Mali four years ago, is a fragment of Mars’ primordial crust, formed ...

Crowded star clusters in the early Universe could have built giant stars, seeded black holes and fed the mysterious little ...