For now, complex life flourishes on our planet thanks to its supply of oxygen. But Earth's atmosphere wasn't always like it ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

Satellite data reveals 21% of oceans have darkened, affecting photic zones and marine life. Researchers warn of severe ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

The University College London research builds on years of efforts to trace the origins of Earth’s early genetic materials.

Elon Musk says The Earth only has 10% of its life left before it's incinerated by the sun. In a Fox News interview, Musk ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

Life thrives far beneath the surface, in places once thought too harsh for survival. In the shadows of Earth’s crust, tiny ...

While on Titan, Dragonfly will utilize its rotorcraft design to fly around the methane-filled world and explore Titan’s chemistry and how life may have begun on Earth. Using a suite of four ...

A meteor streaks across the sky and burns up in a flash. Sometimes, a small piece survives the journey through Earth’s ...

Scientists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have recreated how RNA might have first replicated itself on ...