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

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

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

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Their results suggest that planets with anaerobic atmospheres that are dominated by H 2, CH 4, or N 2 could still support microbial life, even if the initial growth is slower than it is in Earth's ...