Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

“These microbes, if we found them, would be anaerobic,” Schwieterman explains in the release, meaning the microscopic organisms don’t require oxygen to grow. “They’d be adapted to a very different ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...

Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...