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 ...

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

The earliest days of Earth held secrets that scientists are still trying to uncover. One of the greatest mysteries is how ...

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 ...

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

A supercomputer may have just predicted when life on Earth will end, and, thankfully, it's going to be a long time from now.

You may have heard that the sun will swallow the Earth in 5 billion years, but the planet will be uninhabitable a few billion ...

Hidden in every tenth of a degree of extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for ...

Based on the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique for the first time, the super-Earth, Kepler-725c, with 10 times the ...