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

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks 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.

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 ...

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

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

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

Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists ...

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

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

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...