An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...

Lastly, astronomers could use data from planets beyond the solar system to figure out how ... would then be a more expected outcome of Earth’s evolution, rather than a cosmic fluke.

Benjamin Mills, Professor of Earth System Evolution in Leeds' School of Earth and Environment, supervised the project. He added that the results of the research had important implications for ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

"Instead of a series of improbable events, evolution may be more of a predictable process, unfolding as global conditions allow. Our framework applies not only to Earth, but also other planets ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Moon has a solid inner core with a density comparable to iron, reshaping our ...

Its titanic glaciers played a role in the evolution of complex life. A recent study reveals how these ice giants ... These complex interactions remind us that Earth's systems are interconnected, and ...

“We’re really saying that humans arrived on time, with respect to the evolution of the Earth system,” Macalady says. “And some extraterrestrial biospheres might evolve even more rapidly ...