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The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Purple Earth Hypothesis suggests Earth was once a purple planet. Early microbes used retinal, not chlorophyll, for ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...