It's highly unlikely life started organically on Earth, one expert suggests. But an extraterrestrial intervention might ...

This story originally featured on the MIT Press Reader. Exploration, habitation, and resource extraction all carry a risk of inflicting environmental damage in space, just as they do here on Earth.

Travel back 3.8 billion years to witness the late heavy bombardment and explore the early solar system, from Mercury's ...

It's one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but there's no one accepted answer. And according to one new paper, the chances that ...

Until someone invents warp drive, the only way we can inspect distant exoplanets is with a powerful telescope. However, even the most capable telescopes can only catch faint glimmers from exoplanets.

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