The search for life beyond Earth has followed a familiar logic: find a rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone, where temperatures could allow liquid water, and you may have a world worth watching ...

A single alien world can be misleading. A strange gas in an atmosphere might look promising, then turn out to come from ...

Credit: Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119683 A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so vast and unusual that they defy conventional models of planetary evolution.

Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) and National Institute for Basic Biology have developed a new method ...

Polyester microdroplets, possible precursors to life, were formed from alpha-hydroxy acids (αHAs) in early Earth-like conditions even at low reaction volume, low reactant concentrations, and/or high ...

Space technology on Earth has gone from futuristic to foundational in our everyday lives. From satellite innovations that enable global communication to space science applications improving ...

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