Life on Earth extends far beyond the vibrant rainforests and sunlit coral reefs. Deep below the surface, an extraordinary ...

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

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

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”, ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest bacteria cannot survive. However, there are places where life thrives ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists have spent an incredible amount of manpower attempting to determine what ...

Two of the essential scientific questions are what is life, really, and how did it begin? Scientists predict that on primitive Earth, the atmosphere consisted mostly of ammonia, water vapor ...

Astronomers have officially confirmed the existence of HD 20794 d, a super-Earth located just 20 light-years away, with ...