Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could ...

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the ...

Earth, GJ 251c, orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away, presents an exciting prospect in the search for life beyond our solar system.

Early Earth was a barren wasteland incapable of supporting life until a big protoplanet crash carried in the necessary ingredients, a new study suggests. That collision of the proto-Earth and a ...

“Invoking terraforming adds explanatory complexity without constraint,” said Robert G. Endres, a systems biologist at Imperial College London. But in his new research, he refuses to rule out the ...

Planets lacking plate tectonics and sufficient carbon dioxide and oxygen could make advanced civilizations like ours ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great ...

A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, raising the possibility that it could also have liquid water on its surface and ...