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

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

When an asteroid strikes, there ... planet far. And, as if that weren't interesting enough, one crew is also thinking about what this ejecta can hold. Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth ...

there is the potential for life as they say. “It is among the closest Earth analogues we know about and given its peculiar orbit,” Cretignier said. An artist’s impression of the new planet ...

A super-Earth planet ... mass of the planet. It's the wobbling star that has betrayed the existence of HD 20794d — astronomers have not directly observed HD 20794d, nor taken a picture of ...

Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet six times larger than our own which may have conditions suitable for life.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

Photographing them can help us determine if there ... Pictures of frost-covered dunes help scientists learn whether water ever existed on the planet's surface for long enough for life to evolve ...

it lies just 19.7 light-years away from Earth, raising the "tantalising possibility" of being able to photograph it and, of course, "any aliens lurking there". An exoplanet is a planet outside our ...