The Blue Planetâs Lifeblood: A Finite Flow
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The American Museum of Natural Historyâs show is enlightening, yet frustrating:  It presents a free-flowing flood of data and has an overly insistent and predictable message.
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Astronomers have found the first signature of complex organic molecules in the dust cloud around a distant star, suggesting that these building blocks of life may be a common feature of planetary systems.
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From 26,000 light-years-- near the center of our galaxy-- comes a radio signal that can be interpreted as a cloud of sugar molecules, one key component of what might have assisted the development of life if transported on primordial comets.    Astrobiology Magazine -- Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's giant Robert C...
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Comment is free: Johnjoe McFadden: The location of a newly discovered planet is good news in the search for extraterrestrials.
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The critical base of the ocean food web is shrinking as the world's seas warm, new NASA satellite data show. The discovery has scientists worried about how much food will grow in the future for the world's marine life.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  WASHINGTON - Scientists taking their first "sniffs of air" from planets outside our solar system are a bit baffled by what they didn't find: water.
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Planet with sea views? Let's move For the first time ever, water has been conclusively identified in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system.â¦
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Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it&#39;s hard
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The intensifying impact of human activities is visibly altering the planet, requiring ever more frequent redrawing of the Earthâs features themselves.
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Photographs of the Martian surface taken by an orbiting spacecraft have revealed powerful evidence that liquid water occasionally flows on the Red Planet's surface, an unexpected finding that suddenly increases the odds that the planet may harbor some kind of life.
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Scientists have long thought thick clouds over Saturn&#39;s moon Titan rained methane through smoggy skies. Some believed the liquid pooled on the planet&#39;s surface, perhaps forming lakes or seas reminiscent of Earth&#39;s.
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European scientists have found a planet circling a distant star that could be home to life. The planet, the first detected so far that is enough like Earth for life to develop, orbits a star called mu Arae in the southern constellation Altar.
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The whale's tiny ancestor, how global warming may be hurting plants' carbon-fixing ability, and the mystery of Mars's missing limestone
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By Seth Borenstein THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON -- The first "sniffs of air" of two huge far-away planets reveal that they seem to be missing water, a surprising finding amid weather unlike any planets in our solar system with blast furnace-like gusts amid supersonic winds.
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Introducing a global water ETF.
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By Anne Le Tran  THROUGH the long, soggy winter, when I sat at my desk staring out the window at the sky, I fantasized about one thing: indolent days by a body of clear blue water.   Finally, the rain stopped and the earth dried out.
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To see a hurricane grow on Earth, one's best view is from orbit. But on the windiest planet in the solar system, Saturnian clouds can gather to sizes greater than our tiny blue planet...