It’s also a brash, boys-will-be-boys sensibility that can be felt far beyond its online proponents. It’s hard to imagine, for ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

The exoplanet, which has been named HD 20794 d, orbits in the ‘habitable zone’ of a nearby star similar to our sun.

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new planet which is six times as large as the Earth and could host alien life.

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

A suspected planet that appears well-suited to life has had its existence confirmed – and it’s very much in our neighborhood, ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...