Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

For Matt Williamson, home was wherever the forest called. With a father who worked as a wildlife biologist for the Forest ...

MSU scientists studied microbes in Yellowstone hot springs to understand how life adapted to increasing oxygen levels.

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

As pandemic lockdowns forced humans into isolation, Earth's vegetation was thriving. The year 2020 was the greenest in modern ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

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

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

Life on Earth extends far beyond the vibrant rainforests and sunlit coral reefs. Deep below the surface, an extraordinary ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the ...

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