Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

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When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Earth's relationship with space is much more complex than it used to be. Space around our planet was thought to be influenced ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my research would eventually lead me to ask a question about the origin of ...

How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

Our 24-hour day measures Earth’s rotation relative to the Sun, known as a solar day. This is slightly longer than Earth’s ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...