Earth" planet named HD 20794 d, located 20 light-years away, which could have conditions suitable for life.

Earth’ planet has shown many of the key factors to supporting life as we know it, according to Professor Luke O’Neill.

Giant glaciers scraped parts of the Earth's crust, releasing key minerals into the ocean millions of years ago, a study ...

For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth’s atmosphere won’t always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists ...

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...

In a thrilling development, scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new "super-Earth" exoplanet that may have the ...

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

Scientists have discovered a 'super-Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, located just 20 light-years away, which could potentially host life. It resides in the habitable zone of its star and might have ...

A supernova explosion about 2.5 million years ago sent cosmic rays to Earth. Around that time, virus diversity in Lake ...

The concept of the "great filter" to explain why so far we seem to be alone in the universe is based on erroneous assumptions, according to a new model that describes how life on Earth evolved in ...

The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. Various answers have been proposed, all of which remain unverified. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet.