Amidst the flat, fragmented rocks strewn across the Vernodden region on Mars, an isolated block with a peculiar morphology ...

Locked inside a frozen rock from the edge of the world is a story that began before Earth had oceans, continents or even a ...

Abu Dhabi’s Natural History Museum has opened to the public, taking the shape of pentagonal natural rock formations to ...

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

When a meteor flashes across the night sky, it’s more than a beautiful streak of light. It’s a delivery from deep space—an ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...