Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to sustain liquid water, which is vital for life, as we know it, to exist.

and at least a quarter are Earth-size planets in their star’s so-called habitable zone, where conditions are neither too hot nor too cold for life. With a minimum of 100 billion stars in the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth.

Phosphorus, the vastly underappreciated 15 th element on the periodic table, is essential to all life as we know it ... composition of a small, earth-sized planet outside our Solar system ...