"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

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

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

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

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

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 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 ...

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

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

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...