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 ...

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic ...

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

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

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

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

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

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

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

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...