A rogue planet is an interstellar object of planetary mass without a host planetary system and could be fertile nurseries for life.

When we search for life out there in the galaxy, we base our efforts on what we know. So far, we know only one planet that has yielded life.

The history of life on Earth has often been likened to a four-billion-year-old torch relay. One flame, lit at the beginning of the chain.

According to new research, simple animal species’ may have existed on Earth far longer than humans anticipated, approx 890 million years

Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that changes in Earth's orbit may have allowed complex life to emerge and thrive

Europa is the sixth nearest moon to Jupiter and is roughly the same size as our own. Thanks to data retrieved by the Galileo space probe

Parts of Mars may have been habitable for thousands or even a million years, based on analysis of clays found in one of its craters

Left hands and right hands are almost perfect mirror images of each other. But whatever way they are twisted and turned...

Follow the twisted limbs of your family tree all the way back to its primordial origins billions of years in the past and you'll find...

Using years of data collected from ice-covered habitats all over the world, a Montana State University team has discovered new insights...