Oxygen detected just 300 million years after the Big Bang has caused viral claims that cosmology is wrong. But does this ...

Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

In work that melds the natural with the technological, he foregrounds entanglements shaped by looping currents of life, ...

The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these crucial elements come from ...

A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

Astronomers discover that starlight alone cannot launch cosmic dust from giant stars. This finding challenges decades of assumptions about how life’s essential atoms spread through space.

The global transition to a hydrogen-based clean energy economy faces a critical bottleneck: current proton exchange membrane ...

Qin Shi Huang's tomb has remained sealed for over 2,200 years, but why haven't archaeologists attempted to peek inside?

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...