The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent ...

Astronomers who identified HD 20794 d say its proximity to its host star and orbital pattern suggest it could hold water.

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

Unlocking seismic data could aid the search for fresh groundwater in Africa, where water scarcity affects two-thirds of the ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that oxygen-17 isotopes on the moon closely ...

Scientists confirm the existence of liquid water on Mars, altering our understanding of the Red Planet. Evidence of wave ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...