Scientists have made a bold leap in the search for life’s origins, offering a fresh look at how chemistry might have crossed over into biology. At the center of this progress are coacervate ...

Exoplanets with deep oceans and large amounts of hydrogen in the atmosphere could contain signs of life if such worlds […] ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

In a new paper published ... habitability on a planet of this nature is very unlikely, especially due to the climatic conditions, which are incompatible with human life ...

However, it is unlikely that we will find any life there. Astronomers have ... able to travel to and colonize these newly discovered planets using new forms of rocket propulsion, such as nuclear ...

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.

The process is violent, the first stages of a planet's life are chaotic ... "With so many new planets being discovered, especially those likely having thick hydrogen atmospheres surrounding ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

In a paper slated for publication April 14 in Science, Currie reports the first exoplanet jointly discovered through direct imaging and precision astrometry, a new indirect method that identifies a ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...