Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

We tend to think of habitability in terms of individual planets and their potential to host life. But barring outliers like ...

Covering eight unique saltwater habitats, “Ocean” transports readers to coral reefs, the deep, open ocean, kelp forests, the ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Attenborough's and Butfield's “Ocean” is the complementary book to a National Geographic film of the same name available on ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Marilyn Mendez Arnett lives in an area of Tampa currently considered a ‘non-flood zone’ by FEMA, but that could change as the federal agency reports flood maps are under ...

This cover image released by Grand Central Publishing shows "Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness" by David Attenborough ... makes ...

Recent papers published in Nature and Nature Astronomy found life’s building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Warmer climates than Earth’s could accelerate life’s development, potentially increasing the number of planets with more ...

Upon further investigation, it seems that Gliese 581d may be the only one of the two actually in the habitable zone, and its ...