Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

Oxford researchers have unearthed a cosmic surprise showing that the hydrogen needed for water was embedded in the very rocks ...

Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found huge quantities of chemicals produced by life on Earth in the atmosphere ... would that alien life look like?

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The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

I stashed all my trash for one week to assess where I could make sustainable swaps. Here’s what I changed to reduce my ...

In cli-fi novels, the worst has happened: The big storm hit, the floodwater festered, and the air has gone toxic. While ...

There’s probably a lot more going on at farms across Boulder County than you realize: From restoring soil and revive the ...

Given the seeming paucity of moisture in the leftover remains of Earth's building blocks, planetary scientists have long ...

An award-winning zoologist, her spirited right-hand woman, and their sloth-sniffing rescue dog team up in Costa Rica’s lush jungles for the first-ever ...

K2-18 b is 8.6 times as massive as Earth and has a diameter about 2.6 times as large as our planet. It orbits in the "habitable zone" - a distance where liquid water ... I look forward to seeing ...