For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

With the most advanced craft available at the moment, the time needed to reach this planet will be 194,000 years ...

World Earth Day highlights our planet's importance, mirrored in astrology where Earth stabilizes our lives. It influences ...

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

The prebiotic Earth was a harsh and unstable environment, characterized by intense heat, active volcanoes and little ...

The detected biosignature chemicals are similar to the chemicals made by life on Earth. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spotted the biosignature in the atmosphere of K2-18b, suggesting ...

While much remains unknown, it is intriguing that two ancient meteorite impacts, the 3.5-billion-year-old North Pole impact ...

or DMDS - involved in observations of the planet named K2-18 b are generated on Earth by living organisms, primarily microbial life such as marine phytoplankton - algae. This suggests the planet ...