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

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

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

Scientists reveal water formed soon after the first supernova explosions, suggesting life-friendly conditions existed earlier ...

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

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.

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

Discover the connection between volcanic events and the rise of Earth's oxygen levels that enabled complex life to thrive.

Currently, our solar system sits in the middle of a big empty ... investigate how cosmic radiation might have influenced evolution on Earth throughout history, which could help us in the hunt ...

and explanatory power of underlying rules governing urban system evolution. The paper is authored by an international team from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Wuhan University and other ...

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 ...