A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the researcher points to panspermia, a theory that life or the ingredients for life came ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test — a comprehensive model for estimating the origins of Earth’s habitability, based in part on ocean acidity. The new ...

Water is essential when it comes to life on Earth, but how exactly it formed on the planet remains a mystery. Past evaluations have proven that the initial days of Earth were too hot to retain ice. At ...

It’s not every day that a beloved sci-fi franchise gets a long-awaited TV series, but today is one of those days. The first two episodes of Alien: Earth are now on Hulu and FX, and fans can finally ...

As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon. On July 9, 2025, Earth spun a little faster than usual, enough to make the ...

An exploding star may have sent cosmic shrapnel flying to hit Earth 10 million years ago, and astronomers have now narrowed down the most likely culprits behind this interstellar incident. Earlier ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...