Aisling O'Hare, who led the study, told Newsweek she's "excited" about what the science world can learn from the data.

Certain places on Earth seem far too extreme to support life, but that assumption is far from true. Rather, life apparently ...

A new study suggests that life may emerge rapidly on Earth-like planets once conditions become favorable. By analyzing ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Join us during Earth Month in April—and throughout the year—to marvel at the beauty and diversity of our natural world. Learn about the challenges facing life on our planet—and our successes. Get ...

Life may have appeared on Earth as far back as 4.2 billion years ago, suggesting it may have taken as little as 250 million years for life to arise once conditions were favorable.

Indigenous storytelling is rooted in the earth. Years upon years of a kinship with the land, life, water and sky have produced a variety of narratives about intimate connections to the earth.

HANDOUT/University of Cambridge/AFP via Getty Scientists believe they might have discovered evidence of life on a planet 700 trillion miles away from Earth. K2-18b, a planet more than double the ...

When astronomers search for evidence of life beyond Earth, what signs are they seeking? Would clues be traced to microfossils trapped within ancient Martian rocks, swim in waters of an ocean world ...

All life on Earth is made of complex organic molecules ... Scientists doubt that the early Earth had a great enough variety of chemicals to build these compounds. Comets, however, are a rich ...