Mars has fascinated people for centuries, not only because it is our closest neighbor in space but also because of its ...

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

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But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

Hydrogen from geological formations makes up about 10% of the flammable gases that form the Yanartaş flames near Cirali, ...

The water-rich iron mineral ferrihydrite may be the main culprit behind Mars's reddish dust, rather than the dry, rust-like ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

Cost concerns are holding sales back as the Government pushes the technology, seeking to meet its net zero target ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

The Romans associated the planet with their god of war because it ... the chair of the University of California — Berkeley’s Department of Earth and Planetary Science, told Salon at the ...