NASA's plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts ...

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Clearing water-guzzling and soil-damaging alien invasive plants costs South Africa several hundred million rands every year.

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One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's ...

While there’s no concrete consensus on a list of prerequisites for life to evolve on other planets, there are at least a ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

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It is possible to visit this strange place of 'snotties', psychedelic stalactites and long abandoned artefacts ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

After eons underground, it was discovered by accident. Within a couple of decades, it was already under threat.