We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

Located less than 20 light years away, HD 20794d could potentially be one of the most Earth-like planets found so far, ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

Where there is water, there is the potential for life as they say. “It is among the closest Earth analogues we know ... in which it oscillates in and out of the habitable zone, meaning any ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

This supports the theory that similar asteroids may have helped deliver the water and chemical building blocks that ultimately led to the evolution of life on Earth. The secrets of the asteroid Bennu ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...