Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...
One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.
Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...
Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...
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.
Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...
American space agency NASA announced this week the counter showing the number of confirmed exoplanets has now reached over ...
Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...
Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...
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, ...