An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...
One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...
The belief that life exists outside of Earth is known as ‘cosmic pluralism’. Intriguingly, this was briefly a topic of ...
Their research reveals which Earthly 'technosignatures' would be easiest to detect from a planet across the galaxy.
UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...
Life in these underworlds runs on a very different timeline to Earth's bustling surface. With no sunlight, energy is sparse ...