Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical phenomenon could have sparked the chemistry of life ...

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

NASA’s Perseverance rover has taken an unconventional approach to Martian exploration—smooshing a rock to reveal secrets ...

The discovery of pale, loose rocks on the Martian surface could suggest that Mars was once a much warmer world.

Are subterranean lifeforms viable on Mars? A new interpretation of Martian seismic data by scientists Ikuo Katayama of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

Chemists at Stanford University transformed minerals in rocks to absorb carbon dioxide out of the air. Matthew Kanan, senior ...

We should rejoice in the winter certainty and ease of purified water falling to recharge surface lakes and age-old subsurface storage in highly fractured parent rock. Our summers are transcendent; ...

Exoplanets are the celestial bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. Their small size makes them difficult to detect from Earth, particularly as they appear much dimmer than their parent stars ...

A high-resolution image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after its landing in the area known as Jezero Crater on the Red Planet in ...

You "may want to keep your head down" on 22 December 2032, said Time. That's the day an asteroid may strike our planet. The chances of 2024 YR4 striking Earth increased this week to 1 in 32 but ...