"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

Research shows Earth’s magnetic field may have formed with a fully molten core - protecting the planet long before the inner ...

The key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

Key Takeaways ・Earth’s deep-sea hydrothermal vents provide a model for understanding how life could exist on Europa. ・Holden’s team is studying how vent microbes generate energy using ...

Microbial Life on Earth: A Model for the Cosmos Holden and his team have spent years studying microbes living near the seafloor, in places where boiling fluids spew from the Earth’s crust. These ...

Strong link between Earth’s oxygen level and geomagnetic dipole revealed since the last 540 million years. Science Advances, 2025; 11 (24) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adu8826 ...

When the protoplanet Theia struck Earth more than 4 billion years ago, it may have delivered important chemicals to Earth that enabled life to appear. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle ...

The moon’s icy phosphate concentration was actually “enriched compared to Earth’s oceans by a factor of 1,000 or so,” study co-author Frank Postberg told The New York Times.

Researchers estimate that this will happen in the year 1,000,002,021, when Earth’s surface conditions become so extreme that life becomes impossible for even the most resistant organisms.