Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

It’s often assumed that Earth is somehow separate from the rest of the universe. Yet changes in environments across the solar ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...

New research rethinks amino acid origins, revealing insights into life’s earliest building blocks on Earth and potential ...

Astronomers have long searched for planets like ours, and now, a new discovery brings that dream a little closer to reality.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's alien life closer to home — within the bounds of our solar system? The ...