Feature Stories

How Long Can Life Survive? Ancient Solar System Whets Appetite For More Data.

Artists and scientists use many of the same critical thinking skills to produce strong work.

Some exoplanets have returned featureless readings, with no signs of atmospheric composition.

Microbial life can be preserved in iron deposits, holding possibilities for Mars discoveries.

Researchers have reproduced a wide array of building blocks for life in a prebiotic scenario involving meteorites and the solar wind.

While some scientists are focused on finding Earth’s twin, one group is looking for twins of Venus. Their findings may help the hunt for Earth-like planets.

Scientists are searching for a planet resembling Earth at the end of its habitable lifetime.

Microbes may benefit from viral infections mixing and matching DNA.

A gas giant could become habitable if it drifted just the right distance to its star.

The Red Planet may have lost an ocean's worth of water over the past four billion years.