An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

Life in these underworlds runs on a very different timeline to Earth's bustling surface. With no sunlight, energy is sparse ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

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

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

An asteroid strike could cool the planet's climate, harm crops, and disrupt food supply, but it may also increase plankton ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...