Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.

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On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Because phosphine gas can be produced by microbes, there was speculation that life might exist in Venus’s clouds. However, the detection of phosphine was later disputed by other scientists.

There's growing evidence of possible life on other planets. Here's why you should still be skeptical by Manoj Joshi, Andrew Rushby and Maria Di Paolo, The Conversation ...

Claims for the detection of life on other planets go back decades. In the 1970s, one of the scientists working on the Viking mission to Mars claimed that his experiment had indicated there could be ...

Is there really alien life on this exoplanet? We asked 10 experts. A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b.