"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial ...

Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

Curiosity has just finished the latest leg of its 12-year Mars mission and will now set out to explore miles of web-like ...

What if Earth were furious with humanity? What if revolutionaries took their cues from an unruly planet? Anne ...

A single tree of either type represents a fairly small amount of carbon dioxide in the grand scheme of things.

A team of researchers led by Matthew Genge at Imperial College London confirmed that the asteroid has organic molecules; it confirmed that the samples actually have signs of life — but this life doesn ...

Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

The mini-moon 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for two months and is likely a chunk of the moon, will now drift away ...

The geological layer marks the point when the non-avian dinosaurs and many other species were killed by a cataclysmic event.

A planet like Earth has an iron-nickel core that comes in two parts, a solid inner core and a molten outer core. When any terrestrial planet is born, its core is entirely molten, and the solid ...

Results of the study determined that terrestrial biota had rapidly colonized ... to collect extraterrestrial material originates on a planet awash in microbial life. NASA tries to avoid ...