Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of ...

Reddish rocks discovered in the Sahara Desert four years ago have turned out to be older than almost anything known on Earth.

The video examines whether extraterrestrial life might resemble organisms already found on Earth. Convergent evolution has ...

The loneliness of being "all alone in space" was something I felt was lacking in 'The Martian'.This work depicts that properly, and further expands the story into interaction and friendship with a ...

The rock sample collected by NASA explorers contains remarkable chemical signs, possibly related to ancient life on Mars. A rock sample on Mars is opening up opportunities to search for traces of ...

Contagious cancer, known technically as transmissible cancer, can jump from one animal to another, just like a viral or bacterial pathogen. Not to be confused with cancers like feline leukemia that ...

This summer, exoplanet science—the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun—took a big step forward. Reports of helium gas escaping from the atmosphere of LHS 1140b propelled this exoplanet from ...

This summer, exoplanet science — the study of planets orbiting stars beyond our sun — took a big step forwards. LHS 1140b orbits a faint, red star within the constellation of Cetus — named after a ...