One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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, ...