Billions of years ago, Mars was warm, wet, and capable of sustaining liquid water on its surface. Scientists have long ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered siderite, a carbonate mineral, in Mars’ Gale Crater, offering strong evidence that the ...

Recent research led by the University of Bristol has made waves by pushing back the timeline of Earth’s earliest life form by ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

The peer-reviewed report in the Astrophysical Journal Letters presents more questions than answers, acknowledges numerous ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...