A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were ... as well as 11 unique mineral compounds ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life. "We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a ...

Kennesaw State University assistant professor Jessica Stephenson Reaves has been named to a prestigious two-year National ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history ...

Mars is apparently not the only planet on our radar capable of sustaining life. UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

A research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing ... of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The researchers analysed ...

Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the University of Oxford. The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six ...