Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

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, ...

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 ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.