This finding challenges our current understanding of Mars as a perpetually cold, dry world. The team found more than 4,000 of these white rocks and pebbles scattered across the Martian surface.

According to scientists, Lake Salda is the only place on Earth that’s analogous to the Jezero Crater on Mars. It’s a fact ... are at least 2 million years old, some of which have been exposed ...

By Ted Loos In the art world, getting younger people to look at very old paintings and sculptures has proved challenging. How can a delicate Renaissance sculpture compete with the immediacy of ...

A ubiquitous presence in New York’s art world, he also existed outside it, using 19th-century techniques to create ethereal, haunting images. By Clay Risen Hal Hirshorn, an artist known for his ...

A cutting-edge space instrument has detected microbial fossils in Earth’s gypsum — offering hope that Mars rovers could one day find the same. If traces of life exist in Martian sulfate rocks, we may ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa." Today (March ...

Angelos Tzortzinis, AFP "Today we must send a strong message to punish those responsible for this tragedy," Nikos Lykomitros, a 20-year-old archaeology student, told AFP in Athens. Babis Solakidis ...

Marisa Macy and her partner picked up an old painting for a few quid when she spotted it in Goodwill, in Cincinnati, Ohio. They soon realised they had a real work of art on their hands and made ...

Saunders, ardent US collectors who had flown in over Thanksgiving to see the painting, along with their adviser George Wachter, Sotheby’s chairman and co-worldwide head of Old Master paintings.

Here’s how it works. A Chinese research team is developing a lightweight robotic drone with a targeted special mission scenario of Mars exploration. The air-ground dual-purpose unmanned aerial ...

Mars has fascinated observers for centuries with its striking red hue, shining brightly in our night skies. Research from multiple space agencies suggests that this distinctive color comes primarily ...