Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

In the mid-1990s, scientists made a discovery that shook up the understanding of life on Earth: vast reservoirs of microbes can be found beneath the planet’s surface, often buried kilometers deep in ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien astronomers could also be scanning Earth.

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

NASA is training humanity’s most powerful telescope on a “city-killing” asteroid to determine whether or not we need to brace ...

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

The thin atmosphere, or exosphere, does little to prevent or slow down impacts from extraterrestrial objects, leaving the surface littered with craters. In appearance it is similar to Earth's Moon.

Marine and terrestrial habitats were compared ... it is possible similar species might be hiding on planets such as Mars, where the surface has long been blasted by radiation.

While the asteroid never posed a threat to our planet, it did intrigue astronomers ... an impact thousands of years ago on the moon's surface. The asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, was first spotted ...