The Martian new year arrives with the Red Planet’s vernal equinox. Explaining why requires a deep dive into celestial ...

New research suggests that about 3.6 billion years ago, Mars featured vast water flows and a lake rivaling the size of the ...

A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

When giant ice sheets that once covered the tropics melted, they produced what paleoclimatologists call a “plumeworld ocean”, ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

NASA is planning to send a drone to a nearby moon that will hunt for alien life. The Dragonfly probe will explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – around 745 million miles from Earth. That ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

The Earth’s magnetic field is why we are here today. It protects life from harmful radiation from the Sun and many other cosmic events. It is generated in the liquid outer core of our planet, but ...