Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's Era of Reionization may have occurred much earlier than previously thought.

All life on Earth uses L proteins and D sugars. Even Archaea, a large group of microorganisms with unusual chemical compositions, stick to the program on the handedness of the main molecules they use.

“Get a chance to get to know Venus,” said Nichols. Paul McCartney's “The Kiss of Venus” was partly inspired by a book chapter describing the inferior conjunction. And two upcoming NASA missions will ...

A similar board was formed for the state’s ailing pension systems in the mid-2010s; though still underfunded, the state pension fund has improved significantly since then. “It will start out ...

A senior official at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is taking a leadership role at the U.S. Agency for ...

Because of faults with Boeing’s Starliner, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore had to wait months for a ride back to Earth on a ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? It is now thought that water first formed in space only 100 to 200 million years after the Big Bang—billions of years earlier than ...

The first molecules necessary for life on Earth could have been created when ... to think about how the building blocks of life were formed,” says Richard Zare at Stanford University in California.

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The announcement comes loaded with caveats. Yes, the spots look a lot like those produced by microbes on Earth. But the spots might have formed without the help of living organisms, researchers ...