Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

American space agency NASA announced this week the counter showing the number of confirmed exoplanets has now reached over ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...

This theory was the brainchild of Francis Crick (yes, the one who helped identify DNA) and Leslie Orgel, the originator of ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

Did you see the bright star next to the moon? That was Venus, and part of a conjunction between the moon, Venus and the star ...

A study conducted on a near-Earth asteroid could call into question details we thought we knew about how our planet's oceans came to be, researchers have said. The team of experts, based in Japan, ...