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.

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 ...

New simulations show carbon enabled Earth’s inner core to solidify under realistic cooling, solving the nucleation paradox.

NASA explores the Earth-like planet TRAPPIST-1e using the James Webb Space Telescope to search for signs of alien life.

Archaeologists unearthing a site known as Canhasan 3 Höyük, located within Turkey's Karaman province, have uncovered “the world’s oldest-known street,” which dates back 9,750 years, according to ...

Researchers used atomic-scale computer simulations to discover the importance of carbon in forming a solid planetary core.

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

The scientists based their findings on seismic readings from NASA's InSight lander on Mars, which recorded more than 1,300 ...

Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...

TRAPPIST-1 has the advantage for research purposes of being a faint red dwarf, which means these planets orbit close by, even ...