The inner core of Earth may have changed shape in the past 20 years, according to a group of scientists. The inner core is ...

HD 20794 d, with a mass six times that of Earth, orbits a star similar to our sun. The planet’s location within the habitable ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of exoplanet HD 20794 d, which potentially could support life ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we don't know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical ...

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft, contain the building blocks for life, NASA announced today. NASA ‘fist bumps’ an asteroid to reveal ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...