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 ...

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 ...

and exploring conditions within habitable zones. In this paper, we highlight LSST’s unique contribution to astrobiology, complementing other missions and expanding the search for life beyond Earth in ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list for ...

The new observations were carried out using JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which captured signals in the mid-infrared ...

HD 209458 b, nicknamed "Osiris," is one of the first exoplanets seen passing in front of its star, and it's about 159 light-years from Earth. Kepler-186f is the first Earth-sized planet discovered in ...

Nasa Scientist Discovers Earth-sized ‘Habitable Zone’ World Just 100 Light-years Away The company's payload aboard the ISS features three distinct camera views: a wide-angle lens for Earth's horizon, ...