A new policy paper proposes a lunar biocontainment facility for extraterrestrial samples. This secure lunar laboratory would ...

The scientist has outlined the 'potentially devastating and irreversible long-term impacts' of unknown organisms in space ...

One of the greatest scientific discoveries in history may be hidden beneath nearly 13,000 feet of Antarctic ice. Deep below ...

Water is transferred, abstracted, treated, reused, returned, and used again, so becomes physically, chemically and ...

Scientists suggest the Moon could act as a quarantine checkpoint before samples from Mars are brought back to Earth.

The absolute nightmare scenario becomes reality when a synthetic rubber gasket completely dissolves, triggering the ...

A new study proposes examining Mars and other space samples on the Moon before bringing them to Earth, arguing it would ...

Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

England will be battling against history as well as entire nation when the face Mexico in the World Cup last 16 at The Azteca ...

An unidentified DNA sample found on one of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s boots has returned to the heart of the case almost 30 ...

Tommaso Zaccaria, a researcher at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, has found that terrestrial microorganisms can survive on other celestial bodies where water is present, ...