It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

New research co-authored by Duncan Watson-Parris of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Halıcıoğlu ...

which often contain liquid water — and sometimes life. "This is a common phenomenon on Earth," study co-author Phil Christensen, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University, said in the ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving ...

A massive landslide in Greenland's Dickson Fjord in September 2023 triggered a tsunami that sent shockwaves around the world, ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

We all know cacti store water—but to survive, they migrate their flowers, and so much more. Scientists want to copy the resilient plants' methods to help engineer our future.

fridge and water dispenser. Here, astronauts enjoy "custom made" food while on their roughly six-month-long stays. Each astronaut has their own sleeping bunk, which are surprisingly roomy and feature ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...