"Sporosarcina secretes natural polymers that nurture mineral growth and strengthen regolith, turning loose soil into solid, concrete-like material," the spokesperson writes. "We envision this ...

The finding supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the necessary components for life to begin on Earth and ...

A Hollywood writer turned ODU professor, Morgan Gendel is now working on an engineering project sponsored by the Air Force.

The housing: The buildings surveyed in the report contained more than 3,000 single-room occupancy units in total. These are ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Mars has long looked like a dead world, but Curiosity’s decade of fieldwork has steadily revealed a planet that once offered ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield ...

The plant continued to thrive in the vacuum of space during an experiment conducted on the International Space Station.

Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small planet may have once supported wet oases with humid climates and ...

Scientists have long been interested in the caves of Mars — not just because they could provide a home for future human explorers, but also because they just might harbor evidence of life on the Red ...

Scientists have finally found liquid water on Mars, and it's a huge deal! Buried under layers of ice near the planet’s south pole, this hidden lake gives hope that life might exist, or at least once ...