The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

"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 ...

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

Most people I meet are unaware of their skin type or what products to use, so they rely on recommendations from neighbors, ...

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

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise.

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do that, scientists need untouched samples—material that hasn’t been ...

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

A new breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production uses unlikely ingredients: recycled aluminum, seawater, and caffeine at an ...

A study published recently in Joule reveals that the technology can successfully extract water from soil samples and convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuel chemicals.

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to ...