It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure, especially the innermost spherical core, has stupefied scientists for generations. It sits over 3,000 miles below the surface, smaller ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

Could supernovas have triggered ancient mass extinctions on Earth? New research explores how cosmic explosions may have ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...

The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

Scientists using a submersible robot discovered patterns under the Antarctic ice that have never been seen before by humans.

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.