An international team of researchers has discovered a super-Earth that will allow astronomers to test new hypotheses in the ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore are headed back to Earth after nine months on the ISS – but their greatest ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

A new documentary is causing a stir for claiming that we are not alone. “The Age of Disclosure,” which premiered March 9 at SXSW in Austin, Texas, interviews 34 military and intelligence ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

Impact craters this old have the potential to tell us not only how Earth evolved but how the earliest impacts created the conditions for life to emerge. Long before the asteroid that ended the ...

There is almost no ecosystem on Earth left untouched by human activity, according to new research that suggests widespread change from pollution, wildlife extinctions and disruption to plant life ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...