On Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected chemical signatures in rocks similar to those created by microbial life on ...

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet beyond our Solar System.

Earth's inner core may be layered like an onion, with silicon and carbon creating distinct zones that explain seismic wave ...

Mars may be tens of millions of kilometers away, but for planetary scientists, the most revealing rehearsal space sits in the North Atlantic. Iceland’s mix of ice, fire and wind offers a rare ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

Hard coal seams in the Ordos region are key geological factors contributing to rock bursts. To overcome the limitations of conventional drilling pressure-relief techniques—such as insufficient ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (NASDAQ: RKLB) stock rose Wednesday after the company advanced a South Korean Earth-imaging mission into its next available launch window. The move comes as broader investor ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...

WEST FARGO — It’s an athlete’s dream to practice basketball and volleyball without the hassle of sharing an open gym. Not only did a West Fargo father make that dream a reality for his own children, ...

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system. Reading time 3 minutes Around 100 million years after the formation of the solar ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks, an ...

New method also detects molecular signs of photosynthesis almost 1 billion years earlier than previously documented; Combining chemistry and AI, pioneering method could revolutionize search for ...