The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way ...

An astronomer at Columbia University is suggesting that because life emerged so soon on Earth after its formation, it may ...

Earth and Mars are mysteriously low in elements like copper and zinc, which are crucial for planetary chemistry and potentially life. A new study overturns old theories by showing that these elements ...

Prebiotic molecules central to life's earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into ...

The study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that asteroid and comet impacts possibly supplied Earth with molecules essential for life-sustaining ...

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

A team of scientists has uncovered new details about Mars’ Jezero Crater using the Perseverance rover's cutting-edge ...

Stratosphere: Ranges from about 9-31 miles above the Earth’s surface. The ozone layer, which protects life on Earth from harmful UV radiation, is located in this layer. It's because of the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet ...

Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...