Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

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

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

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

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

Found by Dr Michael Cretignier of the University of Oxford, the planet has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

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

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...