For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic chlorine-containing chemical discovered in Martian soil during various space ...

Cold Storage taps into a growing trend of action movies set in deserted storage facilities, a setting that has been explored in films like Unit 234: The Lockup. This particular narrative involves an ...

Scientists have discovered that perchlorate, a chemical previously thought harmful to Martian life, can actually strengthen bacteria-made "space bricks." Researchers found that under specific ...

Predicted 3D structures of the ancestral nitrogenase DDKK complex from oldest to modern.Holly Rucker/UW Madison NASA-supported scientists have ...

Researchers investigated how bacteria, used to create bricks from Martian soil, react to perchlorate, a chemical found on Mars. While perchlorate slowed bacterial growth, it surprisingly resulted in ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have investigated how bacteria that can mould Martian soil into brick-like structures fare in the presence of perchlorate, a toxic ...

The "Star Trek" franchise features a destructive super-weapon known as the Planet Killer, but the device's origins have remained a mystery for decades.

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s first astronaut to fly to the International Space Station (ISS), has added another ...

YouTube creator HabitatForge left river water and dirt inside a jar for six months in order to study how organisms and ...

The research, led by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has been published in the peer-reviewed journal ...

Thaddeus (Johnny Pemberton) believes he's turning into a ghoul on Fallout, but season 2's penultimate episode has us wondering if that's really the case.