A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

Higher global temperatures mean the intertropical convergence zone could shift south — throwing off precipitation trends for ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the discovery of gases on a faraway planet that may be the same as those produced by ocean plankton on Earth. But a North Carolina ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

Life thrives far beneath the surface, in places once thought too harsh for survival. In the shadows of Earth’s crust, tiny ...

Scientists may have found traces of a chemical that only comes from living organisms on a planet 124 light-years away.

The search for life on exoplanet K2-18b faces fresh challenges as new research questions previous claims. Scientists debate ...

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.

THERE are planets beyond our own that could be hiding untouched paradises.  Exoplanet LHS 1140 b is just one of them – and ...

Claims for the detection of life on other planets go back decades. Here's why you should still be skeptical despite recent ...