Ever so slightly bigger than Earth, the exoplanet LHS 3844b orbits its parent star, LHS 3844, a red dwarf 48.5 light-years ...

A distant planet, LHS 3844b, shows one side perpetually scorched and the other frozen. Researchers suggest its internal ...

LHS 3844b is an exoplanet just slightly larger than Earth that orbits the red dwarf star LHS 3884, located 48.5 light years from our solar system ...

A planet with one side permanently roasting and the other frozen in endless darkness might still have a chance of supporting life. Researchers found that heat inside a tidally locked exoplanet could ...

China is building a deep-sea station 6,500 feet underwater in the South China Sea, and the alien world of creatures already ...

As humanity prepares for a new era of space exploration, NASA and other space agencies are planning ambitious missions to ...

まだ見ぬ宇宙細菌…考えたこともなかった。宇宙にはまだ見ぬ微生物が存在するかもしれません。それが突然地球に持ち込まれたらどうなるでしょう。宇宙探査から帰った宇宙船が、致命的な地球外生命体を持ち込んだら…？ 逆に、地球から運ばれた微生物が遠く離 ...

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

Efforts to manage invasive alien plant species in forests could be held back by a continued reliance on chemical methods, ...

After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

映画『エイリアン』のワンシーンのような話だ──地球外生命体に関心をもつ研究者が洞窟の奥深くへ降りていくと、得体の知れない生き物が入った水滴がまともに目に落ちてきた。 「絶対に何か生き物が目に入ったな、と思いました」とペネロープ・ボストンは言う。現在彼女はNASAのポートフォリオ・サイエンティストだが、その身の毛もよだつ体験をしたのは1994年、ニューメキシコ州のレチュギア洞窟の深部だった。 洞窟探 ...

Alligators live in bacteria-filled swamps and rarely get sick. The hidden chemistry inside their blood could help fight the superbugs that antibiotics can no longer kill.