During the early days of our solar system, giant impacts were common occurrences. Earth likely experienced such an impact ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

The Perseid meteor shower, known for bright meteors, will see reduced visibility this year, with only 10 to 20 meteors per ...

WASHINGTON — Summer's most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks early Wednesday. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter ...

Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.

Scientists from MIT explore how life could exist without water, using ionic liquids in extreme planetary environments.

Additional pieces of the meteorite can be viewed at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, where it will be publicly displayed.

Lab experiments show 'ionic liquids' can form through common planetary processes and might be capable of supporting life even ...

Meteorite that crashed into Georgia home is believed to have originated from the main asteroid belt, making it 4.56 billion ...

Alien life could exist on hot, rocky planets, sustained not by water but by a type of salty fluid, new research suggests.

Discover the 4.56-billion-year-old McDonough Meteorite, a rare stony meteorite that shook Georgia with a sonic boom, now ...