Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice ...

Rivers on Earth carve winding paths through landscapes, shaping the terrain over time. At first glance, their meandering ...

If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor at Pennsylvania State University. “We’re an expected or predictable outcome ...

High-pressure experiments generated the first direct observation of plastic ice, which has qualities of both crystalline ice and liquid water.

Scientists have found a new form of water, called "plastic ice VII," that could possibly exist on other planets. This unusual ...

Astronomers have discovered that sulfur may be a key to helping us narrow down our search for life on other planets. It's not that sulfur is a great indication that a planet is inhabited. Instead, ...

Some scientists think alien life could thrive in ... because the same processes that equip a rocky planet with ammonia are also likely to stock it with water, and when that happens, the two ...

Earth, and when a Xenomorph is let loose on our planet, you'd best believe that all Hell breaks loose. You can check out the ...