Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

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

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

After a $30 million donor pledge fell through, the Museum of the Earth continues to endure severe financial challenges.

In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...