The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

Could we eventually leave Earth and find a new home on another planet? This idea, often depicted in science fiction, may not be as far-fetched as it once seemed. Why Is Life Possible on Earth but ...

it is possible similar species might be hiding on planets such as Mars, where the surface has long been blasted by radiation. “Understanding deep life on Earth could be a model for discovering ...

When the simulations were tweaked a bit, he found it was possible to add a super-Earth to our system without unleashing total chaos. For example, if the hypothetical planet were made just a bit ...

Earth's slow rotation over billions of years may have played a crucial role in oxygenating our atmosphere. Scientists think ...

Our research team has published a chemical analysis of those samples, providing insight into how some of the ingredients for ...

Guinan and her research team think it's possible that asteroids that impacted Earth over the last ... "It's not really super connected to life," she said, "so that's why everyone's kind of like ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

The idea that comets delivered water to early Earth has fallen out of favor in the past decade, but a new look at data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission to an iconic “rubber ...

Why Trust Us? Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023 ...

and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know, no other bodies in the solar system exhibit plate tectonics today. Why is our world different?