Three scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will be honored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU ...

We’ve known for a while that Mars was once a wet world. But there’s always been a geological puzzle regarding how and where ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

A "House of Cards" is a wonderful English phrase that it seems is now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama.

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet ...

"A single collision could have catastrophic long-term consequences," the authors explain, and we would not have long to avoid ...

Clouds play an important role in determining the current and future temperature and global warming rate of the Earth. They simultaneously cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight and warm the planet by ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...