Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...

Atoms found deep inside our planet argue that parts of “proto-Earth,” the early version of our planet, still survive inside ...

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A newly identified super-Earth orbiting a nearby star has rapidly climbed to the top of astronomers’ wish lists for worlds ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

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Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

In a landmark achievement, astronomers have identified a super-Earth exoplanet only 18 light-years away that meets all the ...