Due to extreme temperatures and the dryness of Mars, it's thought to be impossible for liquid water to form on the planet's surface, a critical precondition for habitability. The only hope of finding ...

Frost-covered regions present the best candidates for the future habitability of Mars and further astrobiological exploration, research into brines shows.

Titan is unique in our solar system: it’s the only world besides Earth known to have stable liquids on its surface.

"The existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...

San Diego: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean at ...

Conor Nixon, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, says that finding vesicles on Titan would show an ...

Shukla, the mission pilot of the commercial Axiom-4 mission, performed the demonstration alongside mission commander Peggy ...

Why do some rivers split? UCSB scientists found the answer—and it could change how we restore and manage waterways.

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...