Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

The exoplanet K2-18b could harbor a massive ocean, but scientists will need to study the planet more to see if it’s really ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Observations by the James Webb space telescope find possible biological activity on a giant planet 124 light-years from Earth ...

The Webb Space Telescope picked up traces of dimethyl sulfide on planet K2-18b. On Earth, the molecule comes from microbes ...

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a ...

A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have ...

The T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB, is a recurrent nova that bursts about every 80 years. Astronomers are pointing ...

Researchers discover Earth's first crust, formed 4.5 billion years ago, had chemical features similar to modern continental crust. (photo credit: Tanya Kalian. Via Shutterstock) A study published ...

splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California to close out the first crewed flight around Earth's poles. Three-and-a-half days after launch Monday from the Kennedy Space ...

In a first, humans have taken a glimpse of what lies beyond the vast, unbroken ice expanses of Earth’s polar regions—long considered among the planet’s most remote and mysterious frontiers. The ...

Welcome to Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia—the coldest inhabited city on Earth, where life thrives against all odds. Located on the banks of the Lena River in eastern Siberia, Yakutsk isn’t just a ci ...