Scientists believe the exoplanet HD 20794 d, six times the mass of Earth, could harbour liquid water on its surface.

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

Scientists say they expect the asteroid's future trajectory and impact probability to change as astronomers collect and ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...